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THE JOURNAL
OF THE
KILKENNY AND SOUTH-EAST OF IRELAND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.
VOL. VI.
NEW SERIES.
1867.
DUBLIN:
PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.
MCGL1SHAN & GILL, 50, UPPER SACKYILLE- STREET.
1871.
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The Committee wish it to be distinctly understood, that they do
not hold themselves responsible for the statements and opinions
contained in the Papers read at the Meetings of the Society, and
here printed, except so far as the 9th and 10th Amended General
Rules extend.
DUBLIN : PRINTED AT THK UNIVERSITY PRESS BY M. H. GILL.
PREFACE.
THIS Volume has been delayed in the hope that Dr. Arthur's
Fee-Book — a document of the greatest 'value to the Genealogist,
as well as of interest to the Medical Profession — might be con-
cluded in it. This it has been found impossible to effect : and
as the Proceedings and Papers of the year 1867 complete the
New or Second Series of the Society's Journal, they are now
issued as a separate Volume.
The thanks of the Society are due to Evelyn Philip
Shirley, Esq., for the woodcuts which illustrate Dineley's Tour
in Ireland ; and to Maurice Lenihan, Esq., M. R. I. A., for com-
municating the transcripts of Dr. Arthur's Fee-Book.
JAMES GRAVES, A. B.
INISNAO, November 30, 1871.
CONTENTS.
Page.
Proceedings, January Meeting, 1
The Fee-Book of a Physician of the Seventeenth Century.
By Maurice Lenihan, Esq., Author of the " History of Limerick," ... 10
The Tory Wars of Ulster, with the History of the Three Brenans of the County of
Kilkenny, descriptive of Ireland from the Restoration to the Revolution.
By John P. Prendergast, Esq., Barrister- at- Law, 33
Proceedings, April Meeting 69
Extracts from the Journal of Thomas Dineley, Esquire, giving some Account of his
Visit to Ireland in the Reign of Charles II. Continued.
Communicated by Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., M. A., with Notes by the
Hon. Robert O'Brien, and the Rev. James Graves, 73
The Last of the O'Neills, Earls of Tyrone.
By William Pinkerton, F. S. A., F. A. S. L., 91
Proceedings, July Meeting, 101
Topographical and Historical Illustrations of the County and City of Kilkenny.
Continued.
By John Hogan, 109
The Fee-Book of a Physician of the Seventeenth Century. Continued.
By Maurice Lenihan, Esq., M. R. I. A., Author of the History of Limerick, 139
Extracts from the Journal of Thomas Dineley, Esquire, giving some Account of his
Visit to Ireland in the Reign of Charles II. Completed.
Communicated by Evelyn Philip Shirley, Esq., M. A., with Notes by the
Hon. Robert O'Brien, and the Rev. James Graves, 176
Proceedings, October Meeting, , 205
An Inquiry into the Origin of the Family of Archer in Kilkenny, with Notices of
other Families of the same name in Ireland,
By J. H. Laurence- Archer, Captain, 220
Some Additional Facts as to the Marriage of James Viscount Thurles, afterwards
Duke of Ormonde, and the Lady Elizabeth Preston.
By the Rev. James Graves, A. B., M. R. I. A., 232
The Fee-Book of a Physician of the Seventeenth Century. Continued.
By Maurice Lenihan, Esquire, M. R. I. A., Author of the History of
Limerick, 230
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
1.* Square Earthen Fort on G-areendina Hill, near Castlecomer, 4
2. "Inscribed Boundary Stone at Killeney, near Kells, 6
3.*Monnt Ivers Castle, 75
4.*Ballicar Castle, 77
5.*Clare Castle, 78
6.*Ballyclogh, 81
7.*Rathlahine Castle, 82
8.*Ballingard, and the Islands belonging to the Earl of Thomond, 85
9.*Bunratty Castle, 87
10.* Ross Roe Castle, 177
1 1.* The Ruins of Quin Abbey, 179
12.*Monument of the Mac Namara Family, 181
13.*Clonrond Castle, 182
14.* Clare Castle, 183
15.*Ennis, 184
16.*Ruinsof the Abbey of Clare, 185
17.*Donogoroge Castle, 187
18.*Scattery Island, 188
19.*Ballykitt, 192
20.*Lough Gur Castle, 195
2 l.*Balliugarde Castle, 196
22.*Carrigkenlish, 197
23.*Cragg Owhny, 199
24.*Knockannaneen, ib.
25.* Do. 200
26.*0'Brien's Bridge, ib.
27. Archer Seals, • To face p. 221
28. Armorial Ensigns of Archer Families, in the City of Kilkenny, . . To face p. 225
*** The Illustrations marked with an asterisk (*) are in the text ; the remainder are Plates, and
the Binder is requested to place them as above indicated.
PROCEEDINGS AND PAPERS
OF
THE KILKENNY AND SOUTH-EAST OF IRELAND
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SOCIETY,
FOR THE YEAR 1667.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING, held in the Society's Apartments,
William-street, Kilkenny, on Wednesday, January the 16th
(by adjournment from the 2nd), 1867.
BARRY DELANY, Esq., M. D., in the Chair.
The following new Members were elected : —
His Excellency the Most Hon. the Marquis of Abercorn, Lord
Lieutenent of Ireland : proposed by the Rev. James Graves.
The Rev. Samuel Penrose, Kilkenny : proposed by the Rev.
N. R. Brunskill.
William Stokes, Esq., M. D., Regius Professor of Physic, Tri-
nity College, Dublin : proposed by the Rev. John Francis Shear-
man, R. C. C., M. R. 1. A.
Patrick J. O'Kennedy, Esq., Skibbereen : proposed by the
Rev. George Vance.
The Rev. James Graves announced that His Excellency the
Marquis of Abercorn, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, had honoured
the Society by consenting to fill the office of Patron in place of
his predecessor, the Right Hon. the Earl of Kimberley.
The Committee and Officers of the Society were then unani-
mously re-elected.
The Hon. Secretary read the Report of the Committee for the
year 1866, as follows: —
" Another year— the eighteenth of the Society's existence— has passed
away, and your Committee come once more to review its position and
count its gains and losses. The Roll of actual paying Members contained,
on the 31st December, 587 names ; of new Members, 45 were elected
during the year ; whjlst the names removed in consequence of deaths, re-
signations, and non-payment of subscriptions, numbered 97. Thus, for
the first time in so many years, your Committee have the unpleasant task
of noticing a decrease in the numerical strength of the Society. They do
not, however, look on this decrease as indicating more than a temporary
check to the Society's prosperity — sufficient, however, to induce the
Members to exert themselves in making known the objects and acts of
the Society amongst their friends, and so, by procuring recruits, to bring
the Association up to its former strength.
" The Treasurer's account for 1865 presents a favourable view of the
financial position of the Society ; the balance in hands, after the pay-
ment of all demands for the year, being an increasing one.
" The following Members have been temporarily removed for non-
payment of subscriptions, but with the option of being restored to
Membership on clearing off arrears : —
£ a. d.
Mr. T. D. Smith, 1862-66 . .1100
Denis O'Connell, Esq., M. D. 1864-66 . . 0 18 0
Captain Lonsdale Pounden, 1864-66 . . 0 18 0
James Murphy, Esq. 1865-66 . . 0 12 0
M. J. M'Cann, Esq. 1866 . .060
Mr. Richard Lindsay, 1866 . .060
James M'Loughlin, Esq. 1866 . .060
Charles Newport, Esq. 1866 . .060
" Of the 13 Members removed last year for non-payment of subscrip-
tions, two have availed themselves of the right of re-entering the Society
on the liquidation of arrears, viz. : —
W. Rushton, Esq. | Thomas Hewitt, Esq.
" Your Committee strongly recommend that such a change be made
in the constitution 'of the Society as will give a higher position amongst
the Members to those who evince their interest in the welfare of the So-
ciety by subscribing £1 or upwards annually. This may be effected by
giving a diploma of Fellowship to all such subscribers. '
The thanks of the Society are due to Evelyn P. Shirley, Esq., M. P.,
for the donation of a large number of costly woodcuts, illustrating l Di-
leley s Tour in Ireland ;• and also to Mr. Daniel MacCarthy, for defray-
ing tho entire cost of printing several portions of ' The Life and Letters
Florence MacCarthy.' Mr. Maurice Lenihan has also kindly given the
use of two woodcuts to the Society.
" Your Committee cannot conclude without expressing their regret
at the demise of Sir E.D. Burrowes, Bart, and of Lieu tenant-General Sir
John Mac Donald, K. C. B., both of them early and zealous Members of
the Society."
The balance sheet of the Treasurer for the year 1865, was laid
before the meeting.
A resolution was then unanimously passed adopting the Report
of the Committee ; and Mr. J. G. Robertson and Mr. P. A. Ayl-
ward were requested to audit the Treasurer's accounts before the
next meeting of the Society.
The. Rev. James Graves spoke in support of the suggestion
contained in the Committee's Report: he was in favour of raising the
status of members willing to give an enlarged subscription, by elect-
ing them to Fellowships. Many members paid additional sums to
the " Illustration Fund," and yet ranked only with the ordinary
subscribers of 6s. per annum. Several of these subscribers to the
" Illustrated Fund" would be entitled to Fellowships. It would
be needful, however, to obtain the royal sanction for such a step,
but he felt that the permanency of the Society would be in a great
degree secured if this could be obtained, and the Society incorpo-
rated by royal charter.
It was the sense of the meeting that a charter should be sought
from the Queen for the Society, and from the fact of His Royal
Highness the late Prince Consort having giving his approval of the
Society, and also in consequence of His Royal Highness the Prince
of Wales having honoured the Society by becoming its Patron-in-
Chief, it was hoped that Her Majesty would not refuse this
favour.
The following presentations were received, and thanks voted to
the donors : —
By the Publisher : " The Builder," Nos. 1228-1240, inclusive.
By the Publisher : " The Gentleman's Magazine," for October,
November, and December, 1866.
By the Rev. Charles A. Vignoles: a silver fourpence of Char-
les I., a good specimen of the " money of necessity" coined by that
monarch during his contest with the Parliament ; found near the
Seven Churches of Clonmacnoise.
By Mr. Richardson, Ballyne, Piltown : a bank note for 3s. 9d.
issued in times gone by from the Bank of Cottrell and Kellett,
Cork.
By the late Charles Ross, Esq., M. D., Castlecomer, through
Mr. Prim: a plan, laid down to scale, of a double ditched qua-
drangular earthen fort, with the following observations : —
close to it. Even in
modern warfare no-
thing could have been
better planned for the
defence of the pass.
The hill is on Mr. But-
ler's property, whose
father claimed the
title of Viscount Gal-
moy. In digging part
of the trench some
boards were discover-
ed at a good depth —
perhaps indicating the
site of the drawbridge.
A good deal of the
outer rampart has
been cut down. The
plan is a copy of one
carefully measured.
What a raking a
column entering the
e wou]d have
08
Sot ~] *, was *°*L J
masked battery. The
fort is all under grass — no thorn trees or shrubs like a rath."
Mr. Graves observed that raths of this quadrangular form were
by some supposed to have been constructed by the Anglo-Normans ;
he was not himself of that opinion, though he must confess that the
circular fashion was the prevalent type of the primaeval earth- works
of the country : he knew of another fine quadrangular rath at Castle-
warren, on the Johnswell mountains — the same group of hills which
also comprised Gareendina, though at several miles distance, and
at the western verge of the range. Square raths were also to be
found elsewhere, as at Rathsaran, near Rathdowney, Queen's
County, where the earth-work having given its name to a town-
land and parish was presumably Celtic in its origin. Square raths,
•with redoubts at the angles, were likely to be Anglo-Norman.
By Bernard E. B. Fitzpatrick, Esq. : ten rubbings of sun-dials
cut on the stone steps of the stairs of the old tower of Ballagh,
near Lisduff, the seat of his father, the Right Hon. John Wilson
Fitzpatrick. Mr. Fitzpatrick wrote as follows : —
From « to * measures one hundred and thirty-eight
feet; from c to rf, nineteen feet; from c to edge of
outer foss, forty-five feet ; extreme breadth, one
hundred and eighty-three feet.
" I have made as careful a rubbing of the dials as I can, and will try
and explain how they are situated. There are ten stairs on which
they are cut, and the dials decrease in size from the upper stairs to the
lowest one. You will see by the rubbings that they are only semicircles,
and that they do not decrease in size with any great regularity. They
are situated opposite two windows, one window being placed higher up
in the stairs than the other; the stairs are circular. I have numbered
the dials in the order they come on each stair ; the largest dial, the
one placed the highest up on the staircase, being numbered No. I, and so
on down to the smallest. I hope this will give you some idea of their
position, but it is very hard to do so without having a drawing of the
staircase."
This communication excited much interest, none of the members
present being aware of any other instance of sun-dials existing on
the staircases of old castles ; but it was resolved that search should
be made, as they might have been hitherto overlooked in many in-
stances.
Mr. Robertson exhibited a copper "siege piece" struck in
Youghal, and bearing the initial letters " Y. T.," for Youghal
Town. It was one of the Youghal local tokens, described by
Mr. Lindsay, and also by the Rev. Samuel Hayman in a former
volume of this "Journal."
The Rev. Mr. Graves informed the meeting that Mr. Prim and
•he had recently made an interesting discovery, having lighted on
an inscribed boundary stone, of some antiquity — a class of monu-
ments which he believed to be very rare in this country. In a low
wall, separating Colonel Mollan's demesne at Newtown from the
farm of Mr. William Hutchinson at Killeney, near Kells, was a
large stone facing in the direction of the latter, on which was an
inscription, in raised letters on a sunk pannel in two lines, in old
English characters, but cut so lightly on the undressed face of
what appeared to have been a rough boulder, as to be most diffi-
cult of decipherment. He had gone with Mr. Prim to see it last
year, and they were informed by Mr. Hutchinson that many peo-
ple had previously attempted to read it, but without success. All
that was known about it in the locality was that it was esteemed
from remote times to be the stone which marked the boundary be-
tween the townlands of Newtown and Killeney, and also between
the estates of the two proprietors. But whether the letters on
the stone indicated so much, or what their purport might be, no
one could tell. On this, the first day of their visit, all they could
make out was the single word " Kelles," which, although re-
versed, was very distinct to eyes practised in the reading of in-
scriptions of the kind. The day was not very favourable for
reading so faint an inscription, and they determined to pay another
visit, when the sun might be expected to shine fully on the stone.
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Since the last meeting of the Society, they had paid a second
visit, and the sun being more favourable on that occasion, they
had succeeded in their object. The first discovery made was that
only the upper line of the inscription was reversed, the lower one
reading quite properly " barron oferly." The reversed line, on
due examination, was found to contain the words " prediu* of
kelles." The contraction after the last letter of the first word of
the upper line usually denoted that the letters " us" should be sup-
plied, so as to form the word predius, but as there was no such word
as predius, whilst the word predium meant a farm, he supposed that
the stone-cutter used the wrong sign when engraving the con-
tracted word. The appearance of the face of the inscribed stone,
as it stood in the wall, was thus : —
belon
Vn th(Vb?£mrg of th<> sixteenth century (the period
n f *e.Hte™ W°uld indicate the inscription to
HT^ °frth?.fr,?y of Sweetman, of Newtown and
"
the ground. As it occurred naturally on the mearing line between
the Abbey property and that of the Baron of Erley, it was con-
sidered a convenient boundary mark ; and in order to leave no mis-
take on the subject, the inscriptions were placed, each facing the
property which it described. In more modern times, when a boun-
dary fence was being built, the land-mark was taken out of the
ground, and included in the wall, but in this position one line was
necessarily reversed. If it had been placed on the top course of
the wall, with the inscribed surface upwards, it would still indicate
exactly what had been intended by the persons who traced the let-
ters upon it nearly three centuries since.
Mr. John Lawler, of Park, near Ballacolla, in the Queen's
county, sent the following letter to the Secretary, which, notwith-
standing Mr. Lawler's modest protest against publication, he, the
Secretary, ventured to print for the information of the members. If
similar notice were taken of the many discoveries incidentally made
throughout the country, much that was valuable would be saved
from, oblivion : —
"Permit me to inform you that, in the beginning of the current year
(1866), a human skeleton and a kind of vessel composed of clay and pow-
dered granite, were accidentally discovered under a rock on part of the
lands of Cuffsborough, in the occupation of a farmer named Sheil, and
•within a short distance of Gortnaclea (or the Field of the stakes), of
historical fame for a battle fought there by the Dalcassians, returning
from Clontarf, and the Ossorians. On hearing of it, but a few days
past, I thought it strange that such a discovery had been so little spoken
of in this neighbourhood, and, accordingly, I went to take a view of the
place, and I was informed by Mr. Sheil, that in one of his fields there was
an immense mass of rock which he considered an obstruction to his agri-
cultural operations, and consequently he set about moving it by blasting.
In doing so he found the rock projecting outwards, and at the base, about
ten feet from the top, he met with flags, which he at once concluded had
been placed there by human hands, and which, on further search, he found
to be the covering of a kind of vault, constructed of such flags, about four
feet square, where the skeleton lay, partly in a sitting posture, the ves-
sel at the knees, and all covered with sand and clay mixed, and as fine as
if they had been sifted. I saw the flags, which were rough and un-
wrought, and the fragments of the vessel, but the bones were returned
to their former resting-place. In an adjoining townland a similar dis-
covery was made some twenty years back, but this was covered to a con-
siderable height with clay, formed like a round hill ; and also convenient
to this village, two skeletons have been discovered in a cave under a pile
of rocks, by persons in search of some supposed hidden treasures ; but
there is a very strange story (though true), connected with this, and I
am of opinion that on further search some interesting discoveries might
be made. It appears to me that these monuments of antiquity reveal a
good deal about ancient peoples, and customs in olden times ; but for a
person of my limited knowledge to pretend to say anything about such
nutters would only be presumption, and, therefore, hearing that a Society
of which you, Sir, are a Member, takes an interest in such things I took
the liberty of penning these few lines, not for publication, but for the
information of your Society, as I thought such things might be of some
public interest."
Mr. George Morant, Jun., of Shirley House, Carrickmacross,
sent the following paper :—
" As I think that the discovery of numerous flint implements in this
neighbourhood may be likely to interest many of the readers of our
4 Journal,' I send you a short account of the 'finds.'
" The lake of Ballyhoe, distant about five miles from Carrickmacross,
is situated on the southern verge of the county of Monaghan, the greater
part of the lake being in Meath. It is of horse-shoe form, and is a good
many acres in extent The River Glyde, or Lagan, runs through it, and
by this stream it is connected with several smaller lakes lying more to
the northward in the county of Monaghan. The river runs into the lake
at the toe of the horse-shoe, and the water there is very shallow, owing
to the large deposit of mud brought down by the river. In the lake are
two artificial islands — one of great extent, the other much smaller. In
the large island are numerous mounds which have been partially exca-
vated, I believe by the engineers of the Board of Works. In the large is-
land I have found two fine specimens of bronze pins, besides other articles
of less interest in lead and iron, and a flint spear head. The shores of the
lake are, for the most part, boggy and full of large timber, stumps and
stems appearing in great quantities both above and below the level of the
water, which was reduced several feet some years ago by the drainage of
the Glyde river. The centre of the horse-shoe is occupied by a peninsula
of bog land with a coating of grass ; this tract also abounds with timber,
the stumps in many places projecting above the soil.
"It was on the 6th of August, 1864, that, after an unsuccessful
search in the great island, we were returning homewards along the east
shore of this peninsula, when we observed two chert spear-heads lying
just beneath the water at its lowest summer level, and immediately after-
wards, a few yards further along the shore, a rude stone hatchet of about
six inches in length, and two deep in its broadest part. This find of
course put us on the qui vive, and the following spring, when the winter
floods had subsided, we proceeded to search very carefully the shores of
this peninsula. The result has been the collection of a great many flint
implements of various types. We found many of them lying on the sur-
face evidently washed out of the bog by wave action during winter ;
many more we discovered by paring off the grassy sod which overlies the
peat ; the greater number were lying a few inches only below the surface
of the boggy soil; others further down in the peat, and beneath it upon
a stony subsoil ; we generally found ashes where these flint implements
lay, and with the flints were pieces of broken celts, or possibly polishers.
In one place a dark-coloured glass bead of a barrel shape was found along
with the flint flakes; and in another a leaden bullet. Very near the same
place, and close to the stump of a large tree, we found a very fine polished
(tone hatchet with squared sides ; its cutting edge only was exposed to
view as it lay in a water- worn declivity of the boggy shore. Its edge is
almost as sharp as that of a modern axe, and quite uninjured. Not far
from the same spot we found lying in one of the holes made in the bog by
the feet of cattle a beautiful little arrowhead of triangular form, chipped
to an exquisite sharpness, and curved inwards at the base to form the
barbs ; this arrow head is of dark flint. Along with the flint flakes,
knives, scrapers, arrow and spear heads, or whatsoever they may be, we
found many specimens in chert or Lydian stone, and many chips and
flakes of both flint and chert besides the more regularly formed l imple-
ments.' Close to a large flint 4 spear head,' little, if at all, less rude than
those of the Amiens type, we found a stone celt of small size slightly
damaged, and portions of others ; these were lying on the stony substra-
tum, having evidently been washed out of, or exposed by the washing
away of, the peat above ; nearer to the spot where the Kiver Glyde runs
out of the lake we found two different types of worked flint arrow-heads
of light-coloured flint ; one barbed, about an inch and three-quarters long,
the other two inches in length, and of a peculiar form, which I have not
observed elsewhere; the latter was found on the bank of the river just
below where it leaves the lake, and where a deep cutting had been made
in the drainage works. Near this spot was anciently a ford, the scene of
several encounters between the Danes and Irish, and where, in later
times, the forces of Elizabeth and the rebels, under Tyrone, met in battle
array. In a field, on the Meath side of the river, stood a castle of which
no vestige now remains above the ground. The foundation may, how-
ever, still be traced, and many articles have, from time to time, been
ploughed and dug up about the site of this old fortalice of the Pale. I
have seen a fine silver coin of Mary, which was found there, and I have
in my possession a very good specimen of a pin brooch in bronze, with
red enamel setting, of a type figured in Wilde's Catalogue, from the same
place. All these relics of supposed various ages — bronze pins, sharpening
stones, a flint spear-head, leaden bullets, and iron implements from the
1 crannoges,' flint flakes, hatchets, celts, highly finished flint arrow-heads
from the shores of the lake, incline me to believe that the now generally
accepted divisions of the ages of stone, bronze, and iron, are not borne
out in this instance. The great * crannoge' which I have mentioned above
is only separated from the main land by a shallow channel, and is in
summer accessible by a narrow causeway. In one of its mounds, princi-
pally composed of ashes, I have found leaden bullets, sharpening stones,
and implements of iron; on its shores the bronze pins above mentioned,
and the flint spear-head ; and on the edges of the lake close by, the flint
arrow-heads, hatchets, &c., all of which, found at about the same level,
were certainly submerged until the drainage works in the Glyde river
permanently reduced the height of the lake by several feet. From this I
should infer that most of these things were used at one and the same time,
by the same race of men, the flint flakes being the ruder weapons and im-
plements of the common people, while the more highly finished arrow-heads
tipped the shafts of the chiefs, whose cloaks were fastened with pins of
bronze, while their followers were content to substitute bone for the same
purpose. The bullets found in the * crannoges' certainly prove that these
island dwellings were occupied at a comparatively late date; and judging
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n New Zealand in our own times, where the stone hatchet, and the
mnTarrow-head have been laid aside for the iron tomahawk and the musket
wTtnfnaTew years, it seems not impossible that the flint, stone, and bronze
3-entrLylU been in use in this country at a penod far later
than * prehistoric' antiquarians would lead us to believe.
The following papers' were then submitted to the meeting :—
ANCIENT 11Q5S AND OlldTTmS.
THE FEE-BOOK OF A PHYSICIAN OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY.
BY MAURICE LENIHAN ESQ., AUTHOR OF THE " HISTORY OF
LIMERICK," &C. &C.
FROM the days of Dianechet, who, we are told, was^the earliest
Irish physician, and whose name, according to " Cormac's Glossary,"
is thus explained : — " Deus Salutis, T)ia na h-eci, the God of Cur-
ing,"1 down to our own days, the " art of healing" has been at all
times regarded with very great reverence, and its professors have
been looked upon with the highest respect by the Irish people.
There is no period of our history in which we are not furnished
with the wonders wrought through the instrumentality of the fa-
culty ; not a few of whom, not only realized most influential posi-
tions some centuries ago, but became the founders of families which
in some instances were ennobled. The "Brehon Laws" not only
make mention of physicians during the earliest periods of authentic
Irish history, but they define the amount of fees to be paid for par-
ticular operations or attendances. The Ollamh was to receive the
same joint of meat as the king ; the persons of the Ollarnhp were
regarded as sacred ; their possessions inviolate ; no impost was to
be levied off them ; an honourable maintenance, and certain por-
tions of land were to be theirs, without any disturbing cause what-
soever to interfere with the enjoyment of their rights and properties.
In the reign of Tigherrnas, A.M. 2816, according to Keating, men
of learning were allowed the same number of colours in their clothes
as princes of the blood. In A. M. 3075, Aldergordh, according to
the same authority, directed physicians to wear gold rings. The
lia£, or doctor, or leech, as the doctor was called, took rank with the
gold-workers in ancient times, and was the Ollamh, or the highest
order of his particular caste.
» Sir William Wilde's Introduction to in the general Census of Ireland for the
the Report on the Tables of Deaths, &c., year 1851.
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A long period appears to have been occupied by the Ollamh, or
liag, in the treatment of the patient, and exemplary was the
penalty imposed on him who inflicted the wound or caused the
sickness to which the doctor was called to minister ; for not only
was the lia$ entitled to his diet during the progress of the disease,
and until the patient was fully restored to health, but four pupils
who waited on him were also fed during the whole time, at the cost
of the transgressor ; whilst the time allowed for the cure of a
wound in hand or arm was one year ; a wound on the leg, a year
and a quarter ; and for a wound on the head, three years were
allowed for a perfect cure ! Whether the patient or the guilty one
was more to be pitied under these circumstances we shall not
pronounce ; but the Liag ran his own risk too ; and though he en-
joyed the privileges of the Qipeach Gpb,' he was made respon-
sible for negligence and unskilfulness, and if convicted of either,
had to pay for his diet and for that of his pupils, and to refund the
fees at the same time.
To the great Ollamh Fodlha, as he is called, is due the refor-
mation and revival of the practice of physic in Ireland. It was
he who confined for ever the practice of the healing art to certain
families throughout the kingdom, and in order that no interruption
should be given to the learned in their different pursuits and studies,
he exacted a law which was to be deemed immutable and perpe-
tual, that in all intestine wars, troubles, irruptions, &c., there should
be no interference with their privileges and persons. And so it was,
as Keating assures us, and as all our annalists coincide in assert-
ing, even for a long period of time after the English invasion.
This may have been one of the supervening causes why me-
dicine attained so high a place in Ireland, even in pagan times,
when the Irish School of Physic was frequented by foreigners, one
of whom we are told was Sosina, ninth King of Scotland, and one
of the successors of Fergus, who, by his parents' permission, was
educated among the physicians and surgeons of Ireland until he
had reached man's estate. He is said to have written the work
De Herbarum Virtutibus et Viribus, and to have died, according to
Lesley, B. C. 161, or according to Bale, A. M. 3826, or B.C. 137.
We have no certainty that physic was taught in the great schools
of Armagh, Mungret, Lismore, Clonroad, &c. ; but if we judge by
the quantities of medicinal herbs which even yet bloom and flourish
among the ruins of some of those famous places — for instance,
Mungret — we must conclude that the healing art in all its branches
was taught in those academies. Whether this be the fact or not,
it is certain that even to this day the Irish people are, in many
1 This was a landowner, who had tagh class, ten of "whom paid him tribute
twenty lieges or retainers of the Bia- without refection.
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parts of the country, thoroughly and intimately acquainted, not only
with the names of, but with the medicinal virtues, and the method
of mixing, herbs, in order that the patient may receive the full be-
nefit of the draught, or of the exterior application, whichever it
may be. Caleb Threlkeld, who wrote the Synopsis styrpium Hi-
bernicarum (Dublin, A. D. 1727) ; and John K'Eough, the author
of the Botanuloyia Universalis Hibernica (Cork, A. D. 1735), were
not better acquainted with the curative powers of herbs than great
numbers among the Irish peasantry. In other instances, too, the
Irish have shown their knowledge : In the " Irish sweating house"
we find an analogy to the fashionable Turkish bath of modern days ;
and in the " earth bath" of the celebrated St. John Long, we dis-
cover a reproduction of the "earth bath" which was taken in his
drunken fits by Shane O'Neill, surnamed Na Dinis, or the Proud.
The works of Galen and Hippocrates were known to the
Ollamhp. Cormac, King and Archbishop of Cashel, was well
acquainted, too, with Hippocrates, as his writings bear witness.
O'Halloran tells us that he (O'Halloran) had in his possession a
manuscript translation of Hippocrates written in Irish, which was
lent to him by Charles O'Conor, Esq., of Ballinagare, and of very
great antiquity, whereas the earliest edition of Hippocrates that
appeared in Europe is a translation from the Arabic, printed at
Venice, A. D., 1493 : " The text of the Irish MS. is in Latin, in
Irish capitals, elegantly penned, each aphorism being literally ren-
dered into Irish, with copious explanatory notes in the same lan-
guage, in which the medicines necessary to remove the different
defects are minutely detailed," &c., &c. Indeed, there are clear
and technical terms in the Irish language for all the diseases of
physic and surgery, many of which most modern nations borrow
From the Greek and Latin tongues. What the nature was of all the
diseases which the lia£r healed we are not clearly told ; but it would
Appear that leprosy prevailed to a great extent in Ireland before and
itter the English invasion. In Limerick, a Leper Hospital was
endowed by royal grant ; and at the comparatively late era of the
.Iteenth century the master of the hospital resided in Mungret-
reet, in that city.1 One of King John's earliest grants to wlter-
ford were the lands now called Leperstown, to endow an hospital
w hich he caused to be erected in that city in thanksgiving for hav-
ing been cured of leprosy by drinking of the waters of a famous well,
whilst at Lil *%? '' the (?l8ea8e he i8 Said to have contracted
1st at Lismore, and from eating of salmon. Waterford has pre-
£rved its richly endowed Leper Hospital to this day ; and it ha*
been the only county m Ireland in which the County Hospital hat
been supported by county rates and taxes. Grants f or the alle"
1 Lenihan's "History of Limerick."
13.
viation of disease were so frequent that hospitals became wealthy ;
whilst the Lm$ was attached to the. court or to the nobleman's
family, or to that of the chieftain, and was held in equal reverence
with the historian, the bard, the poet, the musician. At the time
that Camden wrote there was no territory in Ireland without its
hereditary physicians, bards, &c., &c., the great majority of whom
were men of ability and learning, as well versed in the classics of
antiquity as in their own native tongue, and they were also masters
or writers on medicine, whether in Greek or Latin. It could not
be otherwise, because though the professions of physic and surgery
were hereditary in families, they never descended in regular suc-
cession ; the most distinguished of the tribe were the candidates ;
and of those the most eminent were called to the succession.1 By
this salutary law, a generous emulation constantly subsisted be-
tween the learned professions. In Egypt and Greece, too, the pro-
fession of physic was hereditary in certain families. Hippocrates
was the eighteenth descendant from ./Esculapius. The many Irish
medicinal MSS. in the Royal Irish Academy, in the Library of
Trinity College, Dublin, and elsewhere, prove the extent and na-
ture of the Ollamh'p acquirements, and the facilities he possessed
of extracting from herbs those virtues which to this hour the Irish
people attribute to them.
As to the names of the hereditary physicians, Liag (Lee), or TTlac
Liag, was the name of the hereditary physician of Brian Boroihme,
and he was an exquisite poet also ; his name gave evidence of his
curing powers, whilst his " Laments of Kincora," A. D. 1055,2 can-
not be read without emotion.
The O'Lees, to whom belonged the celebrated medical work
called the Lilium Medicines, which is said to have been written by
Bernard Gordon, a Scotchman, in 1303,3 were the hereditary phy-
sicians of the O'Flaherties of West Connaught ; they may have
been descendants of the Mac Liaghs. The O'Hickies were body
physicians to the O'Briens of Thomond, the Mac Namaras of Clare,
the O'Kennedys of Ormond, and the Mac I Briens of Arra. The
name of Hickie, like that of Liagh, is indicative of their calling.
The Irish word Iche signifies embalming or curing. The burial-
place of this famous family of doctors was in the ancient graveyard
of Teampul-a-Calla, in the Barony of Owney and Arra, county of
Tipperary, parish of Teampul a Calla, and Kilmastulla, and within
a short distance of Killaloe, from which it is divided by the Shan-
non. In that parish, too, they enjoyed considerable property in
1 O'Halloran's retrospective view of 3 There are extant several copies of
the ancient state of physic amongst us, this celebrated book, one of which is pre-
presented to Lucius O'Brien, Esq., M. P. served in the British Museum ; Mr. Mac
for the Borough of Ennis. Adam, of Belfast, has also a copy in his
2 See Hardiman's " Irish Minstrelsy." possession.
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land which they forfeited in the rebellion of 1 64 1 , they being « Irish
&** During my frequent visits to that neighbourhood m he
summe of this yVl867, I happened to light on the tomb of ^
O'Hickies, which I regret to add is much neglected and going to
ruin- it is built of the old red sandstone of the district; it was for-
merly enclosed by a wall and a canopy or roof; on the slab, which
lies flat on the ground, is this inscription traversing a large Greek
cross : —
ANNO E. 8. H.
1648
MON UMENTUM HOC
SIBI CAEISSIMJS
U X 0 E I
ET POSTEEIS FIERI
FECIT CLAEISSIMUS
D. D. JOANNES HICZEY
MEDICINE
DOCTOE PERITISSIMUS.
The tomb lies near the north-eastern extremity of the grave-
yard, in which I may add there are many other curious and in-
teresting mementos of mortality. The O'Nealans, also, were here-
ditary physicians to the renowned Dalgass, or militia of Thomond —
and there was an old saying, if a person were too far gone in sick-
ness for cure — in chej piobh leajha na bhpionne, " The physicians
of the royal militia would not raise him."
The Maddens, or Maddans, or Madans, as the name is variously
written, of Waterford, who were hunted to Cuba or to Connaught
by Cromwell, numbered able physicians in the family. A small
portion of the Waterford property was saved to them ; and this
their descendants possess to this day. In more recent years their
agent in that city (Mr. John Power, Galway), having had occasion
to make searches in London, discovered a box of valuable papers
belonging to the Maddans, at Barnwall's Bank, in London. Among
these papers was a petition from the then dominant party in Wa-
terford to the Lord Protector, " praying that the celebrated Doctor
Madden should not be exiled to Connaught, as there was none
other to replace him." Cromwell's ^a£, with his autograph, was to
the document, which was so precious in the eyes of the Maddan to
whom it came, that he declared he would not part with it for
all his Waterford property ; he added that it would be a patent
of nobility to him, and to his children for ever.
» See " Book of Distribution" of the Oge Hickey of the same, physician. Ir.
County of Tinperary, " No. 90, Morish Pa., Ballycorrigane, 134 acres." See also
Hickey, of Ballycorigane, and Daniel the " Down Survey" of the same county.
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The O' Shells1 were the hereditary physicians of theM'Coughlans
of Devlin, in the King's County, and of the Mac Mahons of Oriel ;
the O'Canavans, and O'Callanans were the physicians of the county
of Galway, according to O'Flaherty.2 A branch of the O'Callanans
settled in the county of Cork, and were in such repute, that in the
days of O'Halloran, to describe the situation of an incurable it was
a common expression, l\li leishir piobh O'Callenan peine ; " Even
O'Callanan wouldnot cure him." TheO'Callanans, too, were the here-
ditary physicians of the Mac Carthys Reagh of Carbery ; the O'Ca-
navans,3 as well as the O'Lees, were doctors in West Connaught,
as were the Fergusses4 in West Mayo, and the O'Donlevys in
Tyrconnell ; and a branch of this family also became physicians to
the O'Donnells. The O'Fergusses were professors of eminence in
Mayo, the O'Dungenans in Breffny, and part of the county Leitrim ;
the O'Dunleavies and O'Cassideys in Fermanagh.
The O'Mearas, natives of the district in Upper Ormond, county
of Tipperary, called Toomevara, where a curious ancient monu-
ment to a member of the family may yet be seen, and one of whom,
viz., Dermod O'Meara, wrote the Pathologia Hereditaria Generalis,
and was the author also of a poem in praise of the Earl of Ormonde,
his patron, were the physicians of the Butlers. The O'Boulgers,
the O'Meallens, the O'Quins, and others of equal distinction, not
only practised with success, but wrote with ability ; their tracts and
treatises have been preserved among the priceless MSS. not only
of Trinity College, Dublin, the Royal Irish Academy, the British
Museum, the Royal Library of Paris, the Libraries of Madrid,
Salamanca, Alcala, Vienna, &c., but in the private collections of
learned men, who have cherished them with the same amount of
fondness that the early physicians themselves are said to have loved
their own smoke-begrimed and dusky vellum treasures, for which Ed-
mund Campion5 tells us they entertained an extraordinary fondness,
and which were written mostly in the Irish language and charac-
ter. The Irish Medical Manuscripts in Ireland alone, a catalogue
of which is furnished by Sir William Wilde, in his historical intro-
duction to the Reports on the Census, 1851, are of inestimable value,
and shed a strong light on the state of the art or science at a period
when but little that was really valuable was known of it through-
out Europe. In fact, O'Connor, King of Ulster, A. M. 3950, who
had his skull violently fractured by a famous hero of Connaught, had
the broken parts knit together by his physician Feignin Feathig, by
an operation now known to surgery as trepanning, but which was
1 O'Sheil's book is in the Royal Irish 4 The Medicine Book of the Fergusses
Academy. is in Trinity College Library, Dublin.
2 Ogygia, P- 365. 6 See " A Historie of Ireland," written
3 One of O'Cannavan's books in the in 1571 by Edmond Campion, afterwards
Trinity College, Dublin, Library. a Jesuit.
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then unknown to any other school of surgery in the world except
the Irish. We have every reason to be proud of *the position
which Irish physicians attained in ages long gone by, ^whilst in
our own age they rank with the first physicians in the world, the
Dublin Schools of Medicine and of Surgery being admittedly unsur-
passed.
We are not aware, however, that any of these early Imgp or
Ollamhp, or those who followed closely on their footsteps, set down,
day after day, in their fee or case-books, if any such they possessed,
the name and quality of the patient, the nature of the disease, the
amount of the fee, the repetition of the visit, the result, &c. We
have, indeed, in the " Annals of the Four Masters," in the " Book of
Leinster," in the Irish Version of "Nennius," in the " Annals of Clon-
macnoise,"and of Innisfallen, in Grace's " Annals," in the " Book of
Lecan,"in the *« Annals of Ulster," in the " Chronicon Scotorum,"in
Colgan's " Acta Sanctorum," in the " Annals of Tigernach," in the
"Book of Obits of Christ Church," in the "Liber Hymnorum," in the
" Book of Landaff,"and in a variety of other equally authentic sources,
including Wares " Annals," Dowling and Clynn's "Annals," &c",'
copious and interesting details of the various phases and symptoms
by which the pestilences, plagues, epidemics, &c., by which Ireland
was visited in the early and medieval times were marked ; and of
the wholesale destruction which these visitations caused. Richard
Stanihurst, Hooker, Keating, Mageoghegan, and others, also count
over the sad story of the fearful effects of these dreadful inflictions
and their frequent accompaniments, famine, tempests, floods, &c
We hear of the Camh1 becoming a monthly visitant of the land in
the reign of eochmoh Opcha3h, A.M., 4248 ; again, A.M., 5001
in the reign Oi bpeapail boDhiobhat>h, « a loss of cows came so that
only one bull and a heifer survived." Eclipses of the sun and
moon were frequent. Deaths by lightning were common.2 Jaun-
dice or yellow sickness (bumhe Chonncnl), carried off its victims
by thousands, and left, in almost every city and town its name to
the road by which the sick were carried to hospital, or near t
which the hospital was erected.3 The Cpom ChoiLl , or acLd-
ing to Peter Walshe's Prospect of Ireland, -the f.^-~~™™l
candle
Th--
This sickness anno 665 (according to O'Briens
preceed by the earthquake
.,1! nigh n. «own „ ,re.
l»d without it, bocho,p bu,t>h, or
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people perished. Again, in long ages afterwards the Mouses, a
species of inflammatory catarrh or influenza, came ; and then in
A.JD., 1341, the barking mania, which commenced with a certain
man in Leinster, putting on his hands a pair of gloves which he had
found, and he beginning to bark like a dog, the disease crept from
him through the whole country.1 This was succeeded by the danc-
cing mania, which came simultaneously with the black death, which
spread not only over Ireland, but over Europe, in 1370, and counted
its victims by hecatombs of the slain. Sir William Wilde divides
into five periods the great pestilences that visited Ireland, and a
great portion of Europe, previously to the sixteenth century.
It is not our purpose, however, to go further through these
details, or bring the reader with us over those dismal fields on
which Death played so frightful a part, as to leave his mark in our
annals in a form calculated to affright the bravest, to appal all with
his horrors, or to show that there is nothing new in the epidemics,
famines, tempests, &c., of latter years. Our purpose and object in
this paper are of a different nature altogether. We wish to show
the nature, and extent, and progress, as well as the actual daily
practice, of a first-class Irish medical man in the seventeenth
century ; and, whilst we do so, to bring on the stage, through his
own diary, the names of his patients, not a few of whom figured in
contemporaneous history, and nearly all of whom were persons of
rank, some of whose descendants continue to this day to hold their
places among the gentry and nobility of the land. The eminent
physician to whom we refer is Dr. Thomas Arthur, to whose ma-
nuscripts we have taken occasion to refer in previous numbers of
the " Journal" of this Society, and on whose Fee-Book, which con-
stitutes a large share of his manuscripts, we must draw to a consi-
derable extent in the course of our inquiry.
This Dr. Thomas Arthur was a member of a most ancient, emi-
nent, and once flourishing Limerick family of that name,2 whose an-
cestor, according to the Arthur MSS., arrived in Ireland just before
King Henry II., A. D. 1 171, and on whom Royalty conferred large
possessions in 1178 in Emly, where he built ".marble" houses,
which he strengthened, according to the fashion of the time, with
trenches, ditches, &c., and he also furthermore surrounded himself
with strong men as servants. He was a great hunter, subjecting
" the swift-footed deer," the " flying hare," and every other animal
of the chase to his sway ; and indulging, moreover, in the pastime
of fowling, as it was followed in that far distant age. He died
about A. D. 1204, at the venerable age of 76 years, and was suc-
1 Grace's " Annals." members of the Arthur family as bi-
2 See Lenihan's "History of Lime- shops, mayors, bailiffs, sheriffs, mer-
rick" for full particulars of numerous chants, &c., &c.
D
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ceeded by John Arthur, who pursued the same course as his sire ;
and who, dyincr about A. D. 1246, at the green old age of 72 years,
was succeeded by Nicholas Arthur, who died about A. D. 1274,
aged 74 years. Next came another John, who, in addition to the
rural occupations which his predecessors had followed, was the
founder of his family in the City of Limerick, where he had large
property, and filled the office of Mayor about A. D. 1274, in the
reicrn of the first Edward, King of England. We shall not dwell
further on the achievements of Dr. Thomas Arthur's ancestors,
than to state that for a period of five or six hundred years they
occasionally filled the highest positions in the Church, and in the
Corporation of Limerick. To the Church they were munificent
benefactors ; and to the Corporation they gave an eclat by the splen-
dour of their riches, and the admirable manner in which the deeds
of some of the family were recognized and rewarded by the Kings
of England. The Arthurs, we need not add, were Roman Catho-
lics ; and in reference to the professions of physic and surgery, it
may be added as a curious, yet significant fact, that as the study of
those branches of science was not prohibited by the Penal Laws of
later times, Catholics stood in the foremost rank and first place,
particularly in Limerick, as physicians and surgeons longer than
the memory of man goeth. In the century after Dr. Thomas
Arthur flourished, there were Stephen O'Halloran, above referred
to, who wrote an able treatise on the advancement of surgery, or a
•' Complete Treatise on Gangrene and Sphacelus with a new Method
of Amputation "(Limerick, A. Welsh, MDCCLXV.), and who was
an admirable practitioner as well as a learned historian. Dr. Martin
was a clever physician, also of the same persuasion, as was Dr.
Mac Knight ; these were succeeded by Dr. O'Kiordan, who in
turn was succeeded by Dr. Carroll. These gentlemen were visited
by patients from all parts of North Munster, and had practice as
extensive as the Queen's physician, and others of equal celebrity
now-a-days. Thus the Penal Laws, which closed the bar, the army,
the navy, the law, &c. &c., against Roman Catholics, permitted them
to follow a pursuit in which many men of that religious persuasion
became exceedingly famous at home and abroad. Indeed, abroad,
many Irish physicians held first rank. O'Higgin was king's physi-
cian in Spam, in the time of Charles V.; Quinlan, a Carrick-on-
buir man, was physician to the Emperor of Russia, under whom he
realized a fortune; whilst Dr. Thomas Hearn, of Waterford, was
physician to Godov, "the Prince of Peace," and threw up his em-
ployment rather than perpetrate a crime to which he had been in-
ed, it is said, by his employer. Dr. Arthur's religion might have
od in the way of his advancement were it not for his having
I 1 •££?£ ^1c1hbish°P Usher of a dangerous disease,
which had baffled the skill of the ablest English physicians, as he
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Dr Thomas Arthur was born on the eve of St. Catherine the
Martyr, A. D. 1593 ;x and he commenced to practise whilst James
I. of England was on the throne — viz., in 1619. But we shall
allow him to tell one of his own stories in his own words : —
DR. ARTHUR'S PROFESSIONAL HISTORY,
Translated from the Latin hexameters in the Arthur MS., p. 245-6.
" Who when a beardless boy dwelt in learned Bourdeaux,
The Augustinian camp of the Thespian goddesses,
Here it pleased him to devote his green youth's study to rhetoric
And the learned institutes of the wise.
Here he inaugurated the first hours of tender youth,
The laurel wreaths of wisdom graced his locks :
To Paris soon he sedulously proceeded, and there
With eager ears had heard the leading physicians,
And with rapid pen had committed to writing
The sacred and previously studied lectures of the learned.
There he had mentally imbibed the oracles of Apollo's shrine,
The wan Hippocrates' difficult precepts,
There, too, O Galen, he perused several large volumes of thy
Sound medical learning.
There, too, he looked through the inner mansions of chemical science,
If he might thence derive any aid for the sick.
Soon after distinguished at Rheims with the honour of the doctorate ;
Welcome and exulting he returned to the house of his fathers ;
There, under happy auspices, he energetically cultivated to perfection
The Paeonian arts, which he learned when a youth.
At the suggestion of the Viceroy of the kingdom and the aristocracy
He removed from his native city and went to Dublin
And, acceptable to the worthy native, the new inhabitant,
Arrived there, and was received rejoicing by all.
It was then apparent what he was, so many certificates
Of his eminent learning being noticed made him known.
The magistrates and lords and courtiers of the chief
Tetrarchs, knights, and squires and generals
Called for him to expel diseases by his fragrant panacea
and ambrosial juices.
Nor was he known, and gave the powerful aid of his famous skill to the
neighbouring peoples only,
But his fame flew through the remotest borders of the kingdom,
And on being sent for he often performed a long journey."
The result of this unprecedented success on the part of an
Irish physician in those days was, that not only did Dr. Arthur
enjoy great practice, but he possessed wonderful influence, as well
with the highest in the state as among his own countrymen and
1 Arthur MSS., Genealogical Idyll, quatrain that he was born in 1593, on
where Dr. Arthur states in a poetical the vigil of St. Catherine the Martyr.
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co-reli<rionists; and his fees were of sufficient magnitude to en-
able him to realize a large fortune, to purchase broad acres, and
to lend considerable suras of money to noblemen and gentlemen,
particularly to theThomond family, and to some of the then old Irish
gentry, who appear to have stood in need of his advances. As to
the nature of the aromatic balsams and healing juices, with which he
wrought such extraordinary cures as to have won for him universal
fame, he has left no record. This is the more to be regretted, as
the contemporaneous medical books afford but a slender notion of
the description of medicine which physicians prescribed for their
patients. The "Regiment of Health" (London, 1634) gives many
valuable hints as to the preservation of life, but only in the way of
food, &c. There are no regular prescriptions such as those with which
we may suppose Dr. Arthur was familiar. We shall now proceed to
give some translations from his Fee-Book merely as specimens ;
but as it is thought better that the original should be given in ex-
tenso, as it is written in a learned language, and in many places
does not bear translation, we shall give transcripts therefrom in
detail, and illustrate the matter as far as we can with notes.
Dr. Thomas Arthur (Fitz-William), before commencing his
Medical Diary or Fee-Book, has a list of " salaria seu denaria,"
which he received after he had been admitted to the roll of the
Masters of the Medical Faculty in Paris, and into the Society of
the " most constant German nation," which appears to have been
the collegiate order to which he attached himself. He states that
he found no difficulty in being placed upon the " album" of that
very celebrated faculty, as it appeared he had been previously
honoured with a Master's degree in his alma mater, the University
of Bordeaux. The " salaria or denaria" appear to have been some-
thing like what we should call " exhibitions," or pecuniary emolu-
ments, or gratuities ; and his admission resembles our " ad eundem"
degrees. Among the " salaria," &c., of which he records a great
number, occur such entries as the following; —
"In conyentu habito p sufficiendo nuncio episcopatui Tua-
mensi, in regno Hibernise, ... 00 16 0
" Cum interfuissc Missae St. Martini, [ 00 10 0
*' Et Missae pro ania Mrae. Stuart, [ 00 8 0
" CQ interfuisse Electionis Rectorise, ...... 00 16 0
Translation:—" In the meeting held for appointing a ''Nuncius'
.. Ju r , j ™Pnck of Tuam> in ^e Kingdom of Ireland, . 0 16 0
When I had been present at the Mass of St. Martin, 010 0
'And at the Mass for the soul of Mary Stuart, ... 080
" When I had been present at the Election of Rector, "... 0160
It would appear from a list, or « Cathologue of Dr. Thomas
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Arthur, his bookes," that the following were among the authors he
studied, viz.: — Galen and Hippocrates and their commentators;
the Anatomical Works of Andrew Laurentius ; the Works of John
Fernelius ; the Institutions of Leonard Fuschius ; the Works and
Medical Canons of Frombesarius ; the Practical Works of Savona-
rola, with a large number of others on chemistry, pharmacy, surgery,
&c., &c. In the list I find the " Pathologia Hereditaria" in 16° of
Dermitius O'Meara, a physician of very great eminence, at the
period he wrote, in Ireland, and of whose writings, &c., mention is
made by Ware. I have a copy of this treatise. O'Meara was a
native of the County of Tipperary, as we have already stated.
Translations of specimens of a few of the most remarkable cases
are here given. In every instance the names of patients are men-
tioned by him : —
The first entries in Dr. Arthur's diary bear date the 20th £ s. d.
of May, 1619, and name of Charles Bourke, who gave him
the " honorarium" of 200
" Anastasia Ronan, "Widow, 068
*' Walter Merony, 080
Various entries occur of well-known Limerick names, such as
Stretch, White, Arthur, Roche, Creagh, Hartegan, Harrold,
Sexton, &c., besides the frequent names of O'Dwyer, Elliot, Corny,
or Croft, Loftus, Leyelles, O'Dwynin, Hannan, Leinch, &c., &c.
The Greek word articvoc (childless) occurs after some individuals
of the names of Fanning and Creagh.
The following entry occurs at the date 6th November, 1619 : —
" I departed from Limerick to Dut}Jin in the suite (comitatu)
of Lord Donat O'Brien, Earl of Thomond, President of
t Munster, where, after staying for nine days, Sir George
Sexton, knight, gave me on the 8th November .... 400
The names of Greatreaks and Houragane, Cromwell and
Baggott, also occur, and the last entry of the year, dated 24th
March, 1619, is: —
" O'Donoghow de Glenfleisk, 0150
who, no doubt, was the O'Donoghoe of that day.
The Doctor concludes the year as follows (in Latin): —
Anno Dni, 1620. — "The amount of my fees for this year past is
£74 Is. Sd.t for which and for other gifts conferred upon me, unworthy,
I return boundless thanks to the Almighty God, who has thus deigned to
bless the beginning of my medical practice; and I beg of him to vouchsafe
to direct, govern, and sanctify the rest of my actions, to the praise and
glory of his name, through Christ our Lord. Amen."
Anno Dni, 1620.— " I went to Dublin on the 3rd of May,
to Mr. George Sexton (gonorrhoea laborantem), who being
thoroughly cured, gave me a horse of the value of £8, £ s. d.
and £5 in gold, .............. 1390
•' I then went to the Lady of Arthur Chichester, the Quaestor
or Treasurer of this Kingdom, then living at Carrickfergus,
in Ulster, whom, when labouring under dropsy, and fore-
warning her of her death within a few days after my prog-
nosis, I attended upon: he gave me on the 25th of May 5 10 0
44 Being sent foron the 3rd of May, I went to Margaret "Walsh,
the daughter of Cormack O'Hara, who was pregnant, and
became convalescent without injury to herself or her child, 100
44 Sir Randal M'Saurley, then Viscount of Dunluce, sent for
me to Dunluce, and gave me ......... 100
After returning to Limerick he treated Richard Gahvey for a
liver complaint, for which he received £l Os. Qd.
" 19th of June, Charles O'Mulryan, a student (studiosus), . 0 10 0
44 15th of August, one of the servants of Judge Sarsfield, . 0 10 0
"28th of August, Maurice Fitzthomas Fitzgerald, living at
Cahirass. [See note *, p. 28, iw/ra], ....... 100
" Lieutenant John Fitzgerald, of Diesthagh, 10th October, . 100
" Ensign (Signifer) Croker of Lismore, ....... 0 11 0
The names of O'Neon, O'Nihil, M'Connor, and McDonnell,
occur this year, during which the Doctor received £75 18s. Qd.
fees, and ends the year with the usual thanksgiving.
u Thady O'Dereleo passed a worm 30 feet long in consequence
of taking an emetic of antimony, 3rd November, 1621, 100
" Patrick O'Nihil, fuller, 13th November, .... 050
" 18th November, Dermod O'Donnell; ....'*. 100
44 O'Donoghow, of Glenfleisk, ..... . 300
" Daniel M'Carthy, surnained 'the bald,' gave 'me a horse of
the value of 40s. on the 2nd of December, . 200
" Patrick Sheogh [query Shea], for his wife, . . 050
44 Amount of fees for this year, ........ 46 10 6^
Dr. Arthur's diary stretches over a period of time commencing
19, and ending in 1663 : it begins as follows :—
Jhesus »J- Maria Ano Dni, 1619.
Sancti D Amen6 ***** % individuae T™it»tis, Patris et Filii et Spiritus
him n h , 7 °vayJ ln afi° D5i 1619' Since then God
23
" Hie sequitur vera et Integra series omnium Sestercioru quae ab segris
ab usquam accepi ex quo medicinam facere incepi ; pro quibus habeo Deo
largitori gratias."
Translation : — Here follows a true and entire list of all the sums I
ever received from patients from the time I began to practice medicine ;
for which I feel thankful to the bountiful God.
Of this list of fees we now proceed to give a full transcript from
the original MS., leaving Dr. Arthur's contracted Latin, for obvious
reasons, untranslated : —
" Charolus Bourk, a gonorrhaea simplici liberatus dedit mihi £ s. d.
pro honorario 20° May, 1619, 02 0 0
" Anastatia Ronane, vidua ab orthopnea liberata, .... 00 6 8
" Gualterus Merony, a synocha putri euadens Maij 22°, . 00 8 0
" Petrus Stackpoll, t films ab intemperie calida hepatis t
obstructionibus liberati 23° Maij, 00 6 0
" Nicholaus Cromwell, a pleuritide liber' 24° Maij, ... 00 5 0
" Gerraldus Arthurius, a bradipepsia liber' 25° Maij, . . 00 5 0
" Anna Gould, quinquagenaria, et nouemdecim annorum
spatio secundo marito cohabitans t sterilis, tandem conce-
pit filiam, qua ex euidentibus conceptionis signis ei pras-
dixi, cu nonnulli medici seniores, quibus maiore fide
adhibuit, earn ut aschytica hydragogis pharmacis me
refragante interemerunt peracto 8°. gestationis mense,
ex huius de mortuae vtero dissecto pro assertione sententiae
mes3 extinctam puellam omnibus^ numeris absolutam
eduxi, vnde n5 minima laudem consequtus sum, 26° Maij, 01 00 0
" Jacobus Do wley, a diarrhea euadens 29° Maij, . . . . 00 10 0
" Edwardus Georgij Ryce a dyssenteria liber' 30° Maij, . 00 5 0
" Dauid Hourugaine a calida hepatis discrasia liber' 2° Junij, 00 5 0
"Joanna Whyte pro filio restaurando quern calidior hepatis
discrasia in hectica pene marasmodem deduxit, 5° Junij
1619, 02 10 0
" Edmundus Hartegane a maxille abcessu difficile in quo os
carie contraxit liberat? 7° Junij, 01 00 0
" Nicholaus Fanning areKvos 9° Junij, 00 10 0
" Thomas Patricij Creagh suffusione occsecatus 11° Junij, . 00 10 0
" Georgi9 Bartholomaei Stretch a febre synocha liber' 14°
Junij, 00 5 0
" Catherina Thadsei Ronarie a cardialgia stomachica, quam
retorrida bilis induxit, liberata 19° Julij, 00 10 0
" Dominicus Vincentij Creagh a palpitatione cordis liber'
20° Junij, 00 6 0
" Guilielimus Jacobi Creagh p uxore hysthirica hydrope
liberata 25° Junij, 00 5 0
u Robertus Cromwell |> uxore chephalalgia liberata 28° Junij, 0005 0
" Juvencula quae ruri deget, ex mensiu metastasiin scyrhum
hepatis incidit, curata 1° Julij 1619, 01 00 0
" Thomas Jacobi Whyte p uxore Anna hysterica curata
4°Ju., 00 10 0
24
^ -
- • 00 5 0
-GeorgiusJacubiCreaghaT6^oSll0Julij . - • • • ^0 0
« Rieard? Georgij Arthurius p uxore febricitante 13 Juhj, . 00 10
•<MatronaFulerthonalienterialiberatal6°Juhj, ... 00 5
CatherinaRonanep dicta 20° Julij, . . ...... 00
4 Mauritius Geraldi Elligott p filio 24° Juhj, ..... 00 6
• Manwaring minister pro filio 25° Julij, ...... 00 10
» Guilielimus Comyn pro uxore 28° Julij ....... 0100
' Thomas Hannane 31° Julij, •••••;• '. ' ' 00 10 0
• Thomas Whyte pdictus p filio Francisco 1° Augusti, . .
• GualteruB Harrold 4° Augusti, .........
' Guilielimus Leinch p tilio Jacobo 6° Augusti, .... 00
• Ellis Bourk vidua 7° Augusti, .........
• Oliuerus Browne 10° Augusti, ......... 00 10
4 Anglica mulier degens in gedibus Colmani 14° August, . 00 10
'Jacobus Whyte magnus p uxore 16° Augusti, ... 01 00 0
'Mathteus O'Moynichaine 18° Augusti, ....... 00 5 0
< Christopherus Whyte pro filio Thoma 19° Augusti, . . 00 6 0
4 Edmundus Donaldi pro filio 21° Augusti, ...... 00 5 0
1 Molouna de Ballibruochaine 23° Augusti, ...... 00 15 0
4 Quidam de Keinrye1 opthalmia curatus 25° Augusti, ..0160
1 Richardus Dominici Creagh pro filio 27° Augusti, ... 00 8 0
4 Nicholaus Fox pro filio 1° Septembris, ....... 00 8 0
4 Jacobus Cassey pro uxore 1° Sepris, ........ 01 00 0
4 Galfridus Stretch pro uxore 3° Septembris, ..... 00 10 0
• Xicholaus Bartholomaei Stretch p uxore 5° Septemb., . . 00 10 0
4 Georgius Bartholomaei Stretch pleuritide liberat' 6° S., . 00 8 0
' Edward? Euerard p uxore 7° Septembris, ...... 00 6 0
4 Edmundus Long p uxore 9° Septembris, ...... 00 6 0
' Nicholas Bartholomasi Stretch p fratre 11° Septembris, . 00 5 0
' Dominicus Jacobi Whyte pro uxore 12° Semptembris, . 00 10 0
'Ellinora Whyte vidua p filio Nicholao 13° Septemb., . . 00 5 0
'Georgius Bently a pleuritide liberatus 15° Septembris, . 00 10 0
•Georgius lloch fort Jacobi p uxore 17° Septembris, . . 00 10 0
' Lucas Stretch p se destillationibus obnoxio 19° Septembris, 00 10 0
lJaspar2 Whyte lienteria correptus 24° Septemb., ... 00 10 0
k Jacobus Edmundi Fox p uxore 25° Septembris, .... 00 10 0
1 Stephanus Arthurius p uxore Maria 27° Septemb. . . . 00 10 0
' Vidua Bonefield3 pro filio 28° Septembris, ...... 00 5 0
'Stephanus Jacobi Whyte p uxore 30° Septemb ..... 00 6 0
• Johanes Johaiiis Croft 2° Octobris, ........ 00 5 0
« Johanes Sexten p uxore Ellina 4° Octobris, ..... 00 6 0
' Anastatia Loftus vidua 7° Octobris, ....... 00 5 0
tu. thecounty Limerick. of ancient Irish fashion placed by his
This Christian name constantly re- brother officers to the late young Cor-
in the old and respectable fa- net, Jasper White, Esq., of the 4th
mily of Whyte, of Limerick, of whom Roval Irish Dragoons, in Castleconnell
several representatives flourish to this Catholic churchyard.
day. There is a very handsome cross ' Bonefield's lane formerlv existed in
25
£ s. d.
" Dominicus Meagh qui turgebat lien 9° Octobris, ... 00 8 0
"Nicholaus Bartholomsei Stretch pro uxore 11° Octobris, . 00 10 0
"Richardus Ley llus p uxore, 13° Octobris, 00 6 0
" Kogerus Ryce febrici tans, 14° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Johannes Yong pro vxore, 15° Octobris, 00 5 0
"Andreas Gulielmi Arthurius 16° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Catherina Walters vidua 17° Octobris, 00 10 0
"Edmundus O'Dwynine1 18° Octobris, 00 8 0
" Patricius Rochfort p filia cui furunculus in brachi ortus
vita pene ademit & suma cu difficultate evasit 19° Octr., 01 00 0
"Johannes Woulf pro uxore 21° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Gualterus Why te pro uxore 23° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Edmundus Skeolan scotomia liberatus 24° Octobris, . . 00 10 0
" Thomas England pro uxore in elephantiasim ^clivis 26°
Octob., 00 10 0
" Jacobus Midchel pro uxore 28° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Gual terms Roch in melancholia hypocundriaca degens
29° Oct., 00 8 0
*' Richardus Georgi9 Arthuro p uxore 30° Octobris, ... 00 5 0
" Edwardus Johannis Stretch pro uxore 2° Novembris, . 00 6 0
" Georgius Rochfort pro uxore 3° Novembris, 00 5 0
" Quidam piscator cauphso correptus 4° Novembris, ... 00 5 0
" Discessi Limjico Dublinium 6° Novembri sin comitatu D.
Donati O'Bryen Thuomonise Comitis2 Momonise Prsesidis
ubi comoratus per nove dies.
" D. Gorgius Sexten3 eques auratus dedit mihi 18° Novembris, 04 00 0
" Guilielimus Greatrikes4, cuius abdomen per viginti annos
quotidie a flatu hypochundriaco ita distendebatur ut per
una horam immobilis sensus^bvocis expers remanerit, ubi-
the English town of Limerick ; it is not nument was raised to perpetuate his
mentioned now-a-days. Among the Ro- memory — See Lenihan's History of Li-
man Catholic physicians who flourished merick. This monument having been
in Limerick about seventy years ago, defaced in the time of the Great Re-
the name of Dr. Thomas Bonefield, or bellion, was rebuilt by Henry, seventh
Bonfield, as I believe he wrote it, de- Earl of Thomond, in 1678. Donagh
serves to be mentioned. He bequeathed O'Brien was a great favorite with Queen
a large sum of money to aid in building Elizabeth and King James I., who
the Roman Catholic College of Park, heaped honours upon him t: above the
near Limerick. Dr. Martin, whose nobility of the time." He was accus-
name appears in the introductory mat- tomedto attend in great state the Par-
ter, was a relative of his. Dr. Bonefield liament and Privy Council ; and the
was a relative of Mr. Marcus O'Shaugh- Queen in 35th year of her reign, on his
nessy, of Limerick, and his remains were petition, granted him a longer estate in
interred in St. Mary's Cathedral ceme- the manor of Ardmolgan, and 60 acres
tery. of land in Harreston Barretts, in the
1 This name appears to be the old county Meath, that he might build a con-
Thomond or Clare name of O'Dinan. venient house for his residence when he
2 Donagh O'Brien, fourth Earl of should have occasion to attend Parlia-
Thomond, Baron of Ibreacan, and ment, or the Council in Dublin.
President of Munster, died on the s Ancestor to the Earl of Limerick,
4th of September, 1624, about five years and from whom the great portion of the
after the period above mentioned. He Limerick estates have descended to the
was interred among his ancestors in present possessor.
Limerick Cathedral, where a noble mo- * Mr. Greatreakes was a native of
E
26 £ .. 4
^^m^raXP^St
JoStai^
sit transactis duobus annis. Dedit mihi pro arra, 2< ^ ^ ^
» Ro^erus Dalthon de Knockmee prope Dungaruan phrseni-
tid°ecorreptus 26° Decembris pro impensarnea opera erga
ipsu etsi incassum habui equm valoris £5 % 20.., . . - Ob
- Joannes Fit* Gerald eques Auratus de Deaish,' acha [i ^ ^ ^
« J^nnes^Uncaste^Te Pffltowne ppe Yeochall hypocun-
driacus et contumacibus viscerum obstructiombus dm
multumq> vexatus 30" Decembris, . . ...... 01 2
•« Guilielimus Greatrikes prcedictus 31° Decembris . . 03 00 0
•< Robertas Koch iunior pro uxore 4° Januarij 1619, . . . 00 10 0
» Thomas Richardi Whyte pro filio 8° Januarij . . . . 00 b
« Arthur viduaPatricii England 11° January, . . . . .00 6 U
"Rikardus Bourke de Killinane bradipsupheticus 15° Jamj.,
« Guilielimus Stone causidicus aut procurator 19° Jamj., . 01 00 0
Anglus quidam peregrinus 24° Januarij, nn.no
Jacobus ffox pro uxore 29° Januarij, ....... 00 10 0
Nicholaus Stretch iunior pro filia 2° februarij 1619, . . 00 10 U
Guilielimus Gradey pro filia 6° februarij,
Leonard Jacobi Creagh pro uxore 7° februarij .... 00 10
" Ellina Harrold vidua p filio Johanne Stretch 9° febru., . 00 b U
"Johannes Browne mercator 12° februarij 1619, .... D 5 0
"Georgius Jacobi Creagh prsedictus 14° februarij, . . . 00 10 0
" Jacobus Gassy pro filio Thoma peripneumonise obnoxio 26°
februarij 01 00 0
14 Robertus Cromwell p Johanne Arthurio melancholias ob-
noxio 26° februarij, 00 10 0
" Johannes Morony 28° februarij, 00 5
" Guilielimus Ronane 4° Martij 1619, 00 08 0
Symon ffaning 9° Martij, 01 00 0
Mauritius Hourugaine 10° Martij, 00 3 0
Guilielimus Greatreekes praedictus 13° Martij, . . . . 0300 0
Ed mundus Baggott 22° Martij 01130
O'Donnoghow de Gleanfleisk 24° Martij 1619,3 .... 00 15 0
Derbyshire. He was of New Affane, cestor to the Lord Stuart de Decies,
county of Waterford. He died in Dub- and illustrious as one of the greatest of
lin, June 2, 1628, and was buried in St. the Geraldines. See this "Journal,"
John's Church. His funeral certificate second Series, vol. iv., p. 334, and Lynche's
U in Ulster's Office (Funeral Entries, " Feudal Dignities."
vol. v., page 137). His grandson was 2 Youghal. For some notice of John
Valentine Greatreakes, "the stroker." Lancaster, see "Journal, "second Series,
See pedigree of the Greatreaks family vol. i., p. 21, and note.
by the Rev. Samuel Hayman in " The 3 This was the O'Donoghoe of the
Reliquary," vol. iv., pp. 81-96 ; 220-236. Glen in his day— ancestor, we presume,
i Sir John FitzGerald of Decies, an- of the Hon. Member for Tralee.
27
"Suma honorarioru huius anni transact!
e s t 74'; 1s- 8d- pro quibus t c 33 1 e r i s
donis suis in me indignu collatis im-
mensas omnipotent! Deo refero
gratias qui initia medicse meae
praxeos sic benedicere dignatus
est ; ^b supplico ut caeteras actiones
meas ad laudem t gloria nomi-
nis Jui dirigere gubernare &
Sanctificare dignetur: per
Xlum Dnum nrum. Ame.
Anno Dni 1620.
" Vigesirna sexta die Martij profectus sum in Kyerye ubi per £ s. d.
dece dies peragratus a diuersis asgris obtinui, .... 05 00 0
" Stephanus Jacobi Whyte 12° Aprilis Anno Dni 1620, . 00 10 0
" Joannes Nangle in pthisim pcliuis 14° Aprilis 1620, . . 00 8 0
" Quida de Treough1 thuomonensis 15° Aprilis, .... 00 5 0
"Gregorius Bonefield 17° Aprilis, 00 5 0
"Petrus Creagh cognomine Niger p filio 18° Aprilis, . . 00 10 0
" Jacobus Harrold pro uxore 20° Aprilis, . . . . . . 00 10 0
" Eduardus Georgii Arthurius pro uxore Catherina 21° Apr. 00 8 0
" Jaspar Woulf hypochundriacus 23° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Patricius Rochfort pro filio 25° Aprilis, 00 8 0
" Vincentius Creagh pro uxore 26° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Malachias O'Mijghaine2 iunior 28° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Johannes Roberti O'Ryrdaine pro uxore in icteru nigrii
vergete 29° Aprilis, 01 00 0
" Eobert Woulfe senior pro uxore 30° Aprilis, 00 10 0
"Guilielimus Brickdale pro uxore Vna 2° Maij, . ... 00 10 0
"Accersitus Dublinium 3° Maij ad Domina Arthur! Chi-
chestri3 Quasstoris seu Thesaurarii huius regni tune de-
gentis apud Carrigfargus in Vltonia, qua anascarcha
laborante, instituta prognosci de eius obitu, eis paucos dies
deserui, 25° Maij dedit mihi, 05 10 0
" Inde accersitus 25° Maij ad Margareta Walsh uxorem
Cormachi O'Hara pregnantem t ictero suffusam qu93
sine prolis aut foetus noxa convaluit 27° Maij, .... 01 00 0
" Sr. Randal Mc Sawrley tune Vicecomes de Dunluce4 me
inde Dunlucia accesiuit 28° Maij et dedit mini, . . . . 01 00 0
" Inde reuersus Lymjicu perueni 17° Junii ubi reperi Ri-
chardu Galwey calidiore hepatis intemperie inhectica ver-
gente et dedit mihi 18° Junij, 01 00 0
1 Trough is a parish in the present 3 Sir Arthur Chichester, Treasurer of
county of Clare, then called Thoraond, Ireland, A. D. 1620, ancestor to the
within a few miles of Limerick. Gene- Marquis of Donegal, and to Viscount
ral Sir Charles Routlege O'Donnell, Templemore.
M. R. I. A., a distinguished cavalry of- 4 Sir Randal M'Sorley M'Donnell, Vis-
ficer, traveller, and litterateur, &c., Co- count of Dunluce, figured largely in the
lonel of the 18th Hussars, resides at doings of the time; and particularly in
Trough House, which is castellated. the time of the Great Rebellion. (See
2 The modern spelling is Meehan. Lenihan's History of Limerick.)
28
£ «. d.
« Robertus Dominici Creagh 24° Juny, . . . • • • • 01 00 0
Bartholomew Stretch cahda discrasia hepatis 28
-Robeitus'Wouif prffidictus contumaci ictero detent? 1° Q1 Q Q
«£2L«iV^^ °°}° ^
- Thomas Clanchey 9° Julij, • • - • • ' : ' ' no ft 0
- Johannes O'Hourugaine mmor 5 uxore 12 July, . . . 00 8 0
" Guilielimus Davidis M'Donell 15° July,. . . . . . . . 00 50
" Charolus O'Mulrian' studiosus 19° July, . . . • • • 00 10 u
" Daniell Arthurius cognomento iuvems 25° July, . . . 00 5 u
" Quidam Thuomoniensis atrabiliarius 30° July, .... 01 UU
" Quidam Leynchy textor quam deploratse salutis restitui
" Quidamfaber lignarius preter spem restitutus 10° Augusti, 00 10 0
"Quidam Servus Domini Sarsfeeld Judicis,2 15° August!, . 00 10 0
" Quidam Anglus senex ruri degens 19° Augusti, .... 00 5
tk Quidam mercator Corcagiensis 24° Augusti, . . . . . 00 10
"Mauritius Thorn® Geraldinus de Cahirassa,3 28° Augusti, 01 00
" David Nihil pro filio prater omnem spem restitute, 1° Sepr., 01 00
"Dominicus BartholomteiWhytcatharrisobnoxius 6° Sepr., 0010 0
" David Comin4 Senator pro filio Nicholao contumaci dyar-
rlueadia uexato rt jam restitute 11° Septembris, . . . . 01 00 0
41 David Ronan sutor qui copiose atram bilem avomuit 15°
Septembris, ............. ^. . 00 12 0
" Johanna Thoma? Arthur post secundas nuptias 18° Septris., 00 10 0
" Stephanus Edmundi Whyte 24° Septembris, ..... 00 10 0
" Patricius Gassy pro filia 27° Septembris, ...... 00 10 0
41 Guilielimus Greatreekes5 9° Octobris, ....... 02 4 0
"Sir Johannes Fitz Gerald De Diessagh 10 Octobris, . . 01 00 0
4 * Signifer Croker de Lismore 11° Octobris, ...... 00 11 0
" Lewis lictor Praesidis Momonise 19° Octobris, .... 03 00 0
" Mauritius Roch run degens 22° Octobris, ...... 00 8 0
" Mauritius O'Molouna 26° Octobris, ........ 00 8 0
" Downe O'Nihill 31° Octobris, ......... 00 10 0
" Vincentius Creagh pro filio 4° Novembris, ..... 00 10 0
" Gualterus Arthurius 8° Novembris, ........ 00 10 0
i The OMulrians are now the Ryans. herass married Elleanor, 5th daughter
The Ryans' country is in the Barony of of John Brown of Camus, Esq., called
Owney, County Limerick. Master of Awney, and from them de-
• Sir Dominick Sarsfield, Viscount Kil- scended all the FitzGeralds of that fa-
mallock, &c., Premier Baronet of Ire- mily since their time, among whom their
land, &c., Lord Chief Justice of the grand -daughter was the mother of
Common Pleas. ("See Aaron Crossly's Theobald Lord Cahir : vid. Pedigree of
Peerage, pp. 101-102). Brown of Awney in Lucas's Collection.
3 The family of Fitz Gerald of Ca- 4 David Comin, or Comyn, was twice
herass, were succeeded in that place, Mayor of Limerick ; he was deposed in
which is situated in the immediate neigh- 1612, for refusing the oath of Supre-
bourhood of Croom, County of Limerick, macy, and not going to Church. He was
by Evans, first Lord Carbery. Sir David re-elected Mayor in 1615, when he suc-
Vandeleur Roche, Bart., recently married ceeded Simon Faning, who was deposed
to the Hon. Isabella Susannah Adelaide for the sair.fi cause.
Massey, 2nd daughter of Lord Clarina, * There was a branch of this family
now resides there. FitzGerald of Ca- settled in Limerick. John Greatrakes,
29
£ s. d.
" Jasper Woulfe pro uxore 1 1° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes O'Hourugaine pdictus pro se 14° Novemb., . . 00 6 0
"Guiliemus 0' Neon pro uxore 18° Novembris, . . . . 00 10 0
" Johannes Stephani Whyte 24° Novembris, 00 5 0
" Gulielimiis Meagh mercator pro uxore, 27° Nov., ... 00 5 0
"Eduardus Georgii Arthurius pro se 30° Novembris, . . 00 5 0
" Thadaeus ruffus sartor pro uxore 3° Decembris, .... 00 6 0
" Georgius Patricii Creagh pro filio 6° Decembris, . . . 00 10 0
" Edmundus O'Neon pro se 9° Decembris, 00 6 0
" Charolus Bourke pro uxore 12° Decembris, ..... 00 10 0
" Robertus Woulf pro uxore 15° Decembris, 00 8 0
" Guilielirnus Greatreekes prasdictus 18° Decembris, . . . 01 00 0
"Edmundus Harrold pro se 21° Decembris, 00 6 0
** Nicholaus Lyllies pro uxore quse 23° Decembris appo-
plexia adorta est, quse tandem in hemiphlegia desinens
inde evasit incolumis no sine variis artis praesidiis t
maxima industria, 01 00 0
" Thomas mc Connor mcNemara mercator 5° Januarij, . . 00 10 0
" Nicholaus Stretch cognomento juvenis £ filia 9° Januarij, . 00 10 0
" Andreas Creagh senior 15° Januarij, . 01 00 0
" David Nicholai Corny n pro se 20° Januarij, 00 10 0
" Robertus Roch cognomento juvenis pro uxore 25° Januarij, 00 1 4 0
"Eduardus Sexten hydropicus 30° Januarij, 01 QO 0
"Nicholaus Lyllies £ uxore praedicta 2° februarij, . . . 02 4 0
"Stephanus Arthurius p Daniele ex fratre nepote 6° fe-
bruarij, 00 6 0
" Stephanus Petri Whyte pro uxore 9° februarij, .... 00 10 0
'•Genetta Leonardi Creagh 11° Februarij, 00 5 0
" Catherina Longe 19° Februarij, 00 10 0
" Nicholaus Bartholomad Stretch £ uxore 25° febr., . . . 00 10 0
" Richardus Galwey pro se 1° Martij, 00 10 0
" Georgius Bartholomsei Stretch 4° Martij, 00 6 0
" Nicholaus Lyllies praedictus p uxore predicta 15°Martii, . 01 00 0
" David Comyn pro uxore 20° Martij, 01 00 0
" Stephanus Thomse Creagh pro uxore 23° Martii, ... 00 6 0
Suma sest?cioru huius transact! anni est 751' 18S> Ocl' ster., pro
quibus et ca3teris beneficiis, quse nullis nostris suiFragentibus
rneritis sed sola dignatione misericordiae suae in nos
confert Dns omnipotens, sumas, quas vale-
mus, gratias ei rependimus.
who lived in the commencement of the pre- Michael, who held a commission in the
sent century, was married to Jane Kelly British navy ; John's brother, Hugh,
one of the sisters of John Kelly, Esq., died some years ago in Limerick; and
Deputy Lieutenant of Limerick (who is nearly all his children emigrated to
father-in-law of Edmund Burke Roche, Australia. The Greatreaks of Lime-
Lord Fermoy), and of Thomas Kelly, rick were allied to the Ingoldsby-Massey
Esq., of Shannon View, Co. Limerick, family, as well as to several other fami-
and had two daughters, viz., Miss Great- lies among the gentry of the county and
reaks, who resides with her uncle, Tho- city of Limerick, including the Scanlans,
mas Kelly, Esq. ; and Mrs. Sampson, the Massys, &c.
who dwells in Limerick, and a son,
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Ano Dni 1621.
« Criatophorus Comyn do Thomounia arthrietic? 27° Martii £ ^ <L
: -
1 JjCWlS 11CIU1 A iceoiv i .-.p. , - .-.
"Ellicia neyn theig1 vidua 3° Aprilis,. . . ; - - • £ JJ' ' 2
"GuiliclimuBGreatreekespnedictusH-Apnlis, . . . - 0300 0
"PhillisComyn prose 19° Aprilis, UO 10
" Catherina ny Ronane pdicta 22° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Thomas Loftus 28° Aprilis, . . nn £ n
" Edmundus Do wley mercator 2° Maij, . ... wo
" Johannes Sexten pro uxore 5° Maij, w 7
44 Richardus Galway pdictus 8° May, uu J
>4 Nono die Maij 1621 profectus sum Dublinm etconquestus
de Dominico Jordanis Roch tune 4m° prsetore Lim/icensi
qui nulla justitia aut ratione sibi suffragante, sed ex dolo
mala et prava erga me voluntate impediuit .pgressum
operis mei inchoati circa constructionem domus meae m
suburbibus Australibus Lirnicensibus in platea Mongrett
dicta, donee Proregis 1 Ordinu regni decreto et mandate
victor euasi rt causa potitius reuersus Lyniicu diu inter-
ruptii opus exequtus sum.2
14 Hector Arthurius pro uxore 3° Junij, 01 00 0
" Matvona Peacock angla pro filio 9° Junij, 00
41 Thomas O'Donell pro uxore 12° Junij, 00 1
44 Guilielmms Eduardi Stretch pro uxore Margarita 18 J., . 00 10 0
41 Jacobus Petri Stretch pro uxore 25° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Georgius Bartholomaji Stretch 30° Junij, 00 6 0
4 4Petrus Andrea) Cragh3 pro uxore Ellinora Ryce 2° Julij, 0013 6
" Stephanus Jacobi Whyte 5° Julij, 00 7 0
44 Eduardus Georgii Ryce 10° Julij, 00 5 0
*' Thomas Jacobi Whyte 14° Julij pro filio, 00 10 6
44 Robertus Cromwell 19° Julij, 00 5 0
44 Edmundus Mahowne 24° Julij, 00 6 0
" Ancilla Justiciarii Gosnell angla 29° Julij, 00 7 0
44 Thomas Loftus prsedictus 2° Augusti, 00 5 0
1 The name is an old Limerick one, " Create Stone Howse," Mungret-street,
though not frequent now-a-days. After Limerick, which Dr. Arthur built at
a vacancy of nearly a year and a half great expense, and an account of which
subsequent to the death of George Dow- is given in Lenihan's History. Dr. Ar-
dall, Roman Catholic Archbishop of thur elsewhere in the MSS. gives each
Armagh (Temp. Eliz»e. Rg**.), the See item he expended in labour and in ma-
was filled by the Pope, who appointed, terials for this house, the erection of
in the Consistory of February the 7th, which was superintended by one Smith, an
1560, a presbyter of the diocese of 4t Englishe mazon" (mason). It appears
Limerick, named Donatus Mac Teighe, that the workmen were fed, as well as
to the primatial See of Ireland. The paid, during the time they were en-
Papal Bull is dated from Rome on the gaged by Dr. Arthur, according to the
22nd of March, 156J. A copy of it custom of the time ; and that large
is printed at p. 118 of Lenihan's History quantities of butter were in those years
of Limerick. No doubt the above Ellice imported from England.
was a relative of the Archbishop. 3 He was subsequently Mayor, and a
» The house referred to was the very remarkable and eminent citizen.
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£ s. d.
" Patricius Richardi Arthurius 9° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Quidam Thuomoniensis 14° Augusti, 00 6 0
" Guilielimus Edwardi Stretch prsedict. 20° Augusti, . . 00 10 0
" Henricus Barckley pro filia 28° Augusti, 00 8 0
"Johannes Nicholai Loftus 31° Augusti, 00 5 0
"Jaspar Woulf pro filio 20° Septembris, 00 8 0
" Thomas Loftus pro filio, 00 12 6
" Guilielimus Haly Senator pro uxore 7° Septembris, . . 00 10 0
" Phillipus Sexten pro uxore Catherina 10° Septembris, . 00 10 6
"Petrus Christopher! Arthurius 19° Septembris, . ... 00 15 0
" Hector Arthurius1 prsedict. pro uxore 24° Septemb., . . 00 8 0
" Dermitius O'Dereleo fulo2 pro uxore 28° Septemb., . . 00 10 0
" Stephanus Thomse Creagh pro uxore 5° Octobris, . . . 00 1 1 0
" Dominicus Haly doliarius3 distructione hepatis detent? . 00 5 0
"Guilielimus Greatreeks prasdictus 17° Octobris, . ... 03 00 0
" Catherina Suppell 22° Octobris, 0017 0
" Guilielimus Richardi Creagh 27° Octobris pro uxore . . 00 11 0
" Thadasus O'Dereleo4 qui a sumpta infusione emetica vitri
Antimonij tineam trigenta pedes longam per alva, deiecit
et a dires torminibus leuatus est quibus dudu cruciabutur
3° Novembris, 01 00 0
" Thomas Dorninici Arthurius p uxore Margareta 9° Nov., 00 8 0
" Patricius O'Nihil fulo 13° Novembris, 00 5 0
" Dermitius O'Donell pro filio cui, ex casu diu celato, una ex
vertebris spinse dorsi sub diaphragmata ex propria sede
ad posteriore partem prolapsa est, et cruru resolutio %
deinde mors sequta est, dedit inihi 18° Novembris, . . . 01 00 0
" O'Donoghow de Gleanleisk, 30° Novembris dedit mihi, . 03 6 0
" Daniel mc Carthy cognomento caluus dedit mihi equum
valoris quadragenta solidoru 2° Decembris, 02 00 0
" Eduardus davidis Woulf 6° Decembris, 00 5 0
" Catherina Suppell praedicta 12° Decembris, 02 3 0
44 Georgius Sexten mercator 15° Decembris, 00 10 0
" Gualterus Sexten 20° Decembris, 00 8 0
" Quida ruri degens 2° Januarij, 00 12 0
"Nicholaus ffaning pro uxore immodico mensiu pfluuio
pene extincta quc vix sistere valuimus 5° Januarij, . . 01 00 0
" Johannes Stephani Roch 7° Januarij, 00 4 0
" Quidam Angla quae decubuit in sedibus Peacok 9°
Januarij, . . 00 10 0
"Robertus Ly Hies p uxore febricitante 13° Januarij, . . . 01 00 0
"Nicholaus O'Quonine 18° Januarij, 00 10 0
" Patricius Sheogh pro uxore 24° Januarij, 00 5 0
"Patricius Stephani Harrold pro uxore 29° Januarij, . . 00 10 0
" Robertus O'Hannane plethora cacochymica laborans 3° feb. 00 10 0
1 Hector Arthur was for some time 3 Coopers then enjoyed fair wages in
Town Clerk of Limerick. Limerick.
8 Cloth making was one of the most fa- 4 Now represented probably by Leo, a
mous trades of Limerick in its day, and name common in Limerick, and scarce
fullers had good wages. . elsewhere.
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£ s. d.
« Phyllis Johannis Comyn predicts pro se 10° februarii, .
« Richardus Galwey praBdictus prose 15° februarii, . , . 0011
•< Patricius Oliueri Harrold pro uxore 24" februarii, . . 00 5 0
•• bominicusBartholonuei Why te pro uxore 28° februarii, . 0010 0
• Michael ffoxl° Martij •••••• m 9 n
• Gennetta Andrre Creagh pro se 4° Martij, . . • • • 01 2 0
• Richardus Oliueri Harrold pro uxore 9° Martij 00 70
• Oliuerus Robert! Arthurius 13° Martij 00 8
• Richardus Galwcy pro uxore 18° Martij, 00 11 0
Patricias MidcheU 23° Martij, 1621,
"Suffia honorarioru preterit! anni est £46 105. 6d. ster.
pro quibus 1 caeteris diuinge munificentiae bene-
ficiis, quibus tennitati nostrse subuenire indies
di^natur sitnomen Domini benedictu Amen.
Ano Dmii 1622.
Phillipus Ronane a contumaci ictero liberatus prseter com-
plurium expectations 27° Martij 1622, 02 04 0
Johannes Skeolan pleuriticus 30° Martij, 0160
Thomas O'Nibill 2° Aprilis, 00 5 0
Guilielmus Greatreekes pdictus 12° Aprilis, 03 10 0
Johannes Lancaster prsedictus 13° Aprilis, 01 2 0 ,'
Johannes Richardi Arthurius 17° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Margareta Tyrry 24° Aprilis, 00 8 0
Uxor Registri Episcopi Angla 29° Aprilis, 00 5 6
Edmundus Sexten senator 2° Maij, 01 00 0
Michael ffox prjedictus 8° Maij, 00 4 0
Johannes Haly fulo pro uxore 15° Maij, 00 12 0
Thomas Comyn mercator muenis 20° Maij, 00 8 6
Patricius Gassy pro uxore 28° Maij, 00 12 0
Anthonius Laurence anglus 4° Junij, 00 5 0
Johannes Wander woorth1 belgic? 9° Junij 00 10 0
Thomas O'Dowell pro filio, 12° Junij, 00 5 0
Jacobus Georgii Creagh 15° Junij, 00 13 6
Petrus Andrea? Creagh 21° Junii, 00 10 0
Nicholaus Barth. Stretch <g uxore 29° Junii, 00 12 0
Edwardus Georgii Ryce pro uxore 4° Julij, 00 10 0
'Thomas Johannis Comyn pro uxore 9° Julij, 00 10 0
4 Johannes Johannis Edmundi Geraldini 12° Julij, ... 00 10 0
" Robertas Ly lies pro uxore 14° Julij, 00 10 0
" Quidam Thuomoniensis2 17° Julij, 00 5 6
u David Mahowne pro uxore 20° Julij, 00 6 0
1 Several Dutchmen and Belgians by a beautiful woodcut in a preceding
settled in Limerick before KingWilliam's number of the Kilkenny Archaeological
time, and a few of them figure in after Journal, and by a historical notice writ-
years on the mayoralty roH. ten by the present writer. The Tho-
Thomond, L e., the present county of mond men were always fond of visiting
Uare. Thomond Gate was a principal Limerick. The first mayor of the city is
gate of the city of Limerick. Old Tho- said, in tradition, to have been • ' Oe6m
mond bridge has been already illustrated a Scoob," a Clare man
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£ s. d.
" Jacobus Whyte iunior 25° Julij, 00 10 0
" Petrus Harrold pdictus £ filia pdicta, 01 10 0
"Gabriell Galwey pro uxore Joafia Stretch 2° Augustis, . 00 10 0
" Thomas Jacob! Whyte £ filio pdicto 9° Augustis, ... 00 1 1 0
"Edmund Harrold pro uxore Joana Creagh 13° August!, . 00 8 0
" David ffox pro uxore 17° August!, 00 10 0
" Stephanus Petri Whyte pro uxore 22° August!, . . . 00 10 0
" Robertus Lyllies predict pro uxore 27° August!, ... 01 2 0
"Philippus Comyn pro filio 31° August!, 00 5 0
" Nauta quidam belgic9x 5° Septembris, 01 0 0
" Bernardus Adams pseudo-epus Lynlicensis2 9° Sep., ..0120
"Richardus Woulf pro filio prsedicto ^cuerato 13° Septem., 01 10 0
** David Comyn Senator, cui hepar impendio calidum ven-
triculi facultatem prostrauit 18° Septembris, .... 01 00 0
u Eobertus Lyllies pictus p uxore 23° Septembris, . . . 01 00 0
" Margareta Richard! Creagh 29° Septembris, 00 5 0
" Nicholaus Faning 3° Octobris, 00 15 0
" Ellina Everard 6° Octobris, 00 6 0
"Nicholaus Loftus 11° Octobris p se, 00 8 0
u Uxor pseudo-Prsecentoris Lyrriicens' Goagh3 16° Octob., . 00 11 0
(To be continued.)
THE TORY WAR OF ULSTER, WITH THE HISTORY OF THE
THREE BRENNANS OF THE COUNTY OF KILKENNY;
DESCRIPTIVE OF IRELAND FROM THE RESTORATION
TO THE REVOLUTION.
BY JOHN P. PRENDERGAST, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW.
IN the month of November, 1683, all Ireland rang with the news
of the capture, at Chester, of three proclaimed " Tories and Rebells"
of the county of Kilkenny and adjacent districts, named Brennan.
They were safe in Chester jail. The Mayor of Chester announced
the good news to the Duke of Ormond, then Lord Lieutenant of
Ireland, at his house in St. James's-square, London. The Chief
Justice of Ireland congratulated the Duke. The Duke thanked
the Mayor of Chester, and requested him to have a careful eye to
the prisoners.
1 It would appear that considerable jured during the Great Rebellion of
commerce existed between Belgium and 1611.
Limerick in those days. 3 The ancestor of the present Field
2 Bernard Adams. Protestant Bishop, Marshal Lord Viscount Gough, K. B.
whose tomb may be seen in St. Mary's The Precentor was afterwards Pro-
Cathedral. The tomb was greatly in- testant Bishop of Limerick.
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During the three years before their arrest they had robbed His
Majesty's good subjects of £1 2,000, and upwards, in cash. They
had been tried, convicted, and sentenced, and brought out to be
handed • but had been rescued from the very scaffold and the hands
of the hangman. They were " proclaimed" as Tories and rebels in
Ireland ; they were pursued by armed men ; rewards were offered
for their heads— but in vain. After lying quietly for some time at
Rin^send, then the port of Dublin, they sailed thence to North
Wafes— their horses (described as " delicate" ones, or as we should
now say, well-bred), with one of their comrades as groom, in one
vessel, themselves in another.
They were "rich in apparel," — wore swords, which they at-
tempted to draw on their captors in the streets of Chester. They
were heavily shackled in jail ; yet before long all Ireland rang
again (as did now London itself) with their escape. For, after a few
days they had overpowered the jailer and his warders, and opened
the prison doors for themselves.
All this is strange ; but stranger still is it, that they are next
year back in Ireland, and, with a band of brother Tories, break into
Kilkenny Castle, the Duke of Ormond's chief residence in Ireland,
and carry off the Duke's plate. But strangest of all, they are " taken
into protection" a few months afterwards by the Lord Deputy of
Ireland, and allowed the use of their horses and travelling arms, in
order to the discovering their accomplices, and " doing service," as
it was called, that is, killing other Tories ; and the Grand Jury of
the county of Kilkenny actually "present" it as their advice that
they should be taken into permanent protection, as the best course
to suppress robberies and felonies in that part of the kingdom.
" A thing impossible to us
This story seems to be ;
None dares be now so venturous,
But times are changed, we see.
In those days men more barbarous were,
And lived less in awe ;
Now (God be thanked) people fear
More to offend the law."
But it was not only in Kilkenny that such rebels and outlaws
5 to be found. The same parts which these Brennans played
i the counties of Kilkenny, Queen's County, Carlow, and W ex-
ford did Redmond O'Hanlon, Kedagh O'Harte, and others, their
contemporaries, play in the counties of Londonderry, Armagh,
rrone and Down. And the O'Hanlons and the Brennans of 1683
u tlje.8u^e880r8 of Colonel Dudley (or Dualtagh) Costello
and hia band, m the county of Mayo, of Cornet Edmund Nangle in
the county of Longford, of Colonel Coughlan in the King's County,
and of Colonel Power in Munster, in 1666 ; as these last-named men
were of the Tories of the Cromwellian era, such as Gerald Kinshela
in Carlo w, and Donogh O'Derrick, or Doyle, " commonly called
Blind Donogh" — who, however, could see well enough to surprise,
near Timolinn, in the neighbouring county of Kildare, in the month
of January, 1654-5, eight of Dr. Petty's English surveyors engaged
upon the Down survey, whence they carried them into the woods,
and after some drum-head kind of court-martial, murdered them,
as accessaries, probably, in their opinion, to a scheme of gigantic
and cruel robbery.1
Leaving aside, however, upon the present occasion, any further
reference to the disturbers of the Cromwellian peace, it may be
worth while, in connexion with the case of the Brennans, to hear
something of the Tories during the Restoration era. We allude to
the thirty years comprised between 1660 and 1690, or the interval
between the completion of the Cromwellian settlement and the
commencement of the war that resulted in the Revolution settle-
ment.
Rebels and outlaws, of the same or similar character, fought,
robbed, and died by ball, or steel, or rope, during all that period (and
indeed much beyond it) ; so that the following lines from the ballad
we have already quoted are exactly true: —
" For thirty years, or something more,
These outlaws lived thus,
Feared of the rich, loved of the poor,
A thing most marvellous."2
In this tale of the Brennans will be found something more than
an adventurous story. It may even present views of history which
may in this way be impressed upon the mind more clearly and
firmly than by any set treatise.
1 "Ordered, that Mr. James Standish, Dated att Dublin Castle, the 25th of
Receiver-General, &c., do, out of the December, 1655. Henry Cromwell,
first monies that shall come to his hands, Richard Pepys, Rob1. Goodwin, Miles
pay unto Collonell Henry Pretty, Gover- Corbet, Mathew Tomlinson." Book of
nor of Catherlough, the summe of one the Council for the Affairs of Ireland,
hundred pounds to be by him disposed of Al, p. 325, Record Tower, Dublin
to such persons as lately took Donough Castle.
Doyle, or Derrig, alias, called Blind 2 In the original" Thirteen." "A true
Donnough (the notorious Tory, Rebell, tale of Robin Hood, carefully collected
and Theif), at Tymolyn, in the house out of the truest writers of our English
whence he and his party took the eight chronicles, and published for the satis-
English surveyors who were thence car- faction of those who desire truth from
ried into the woods and most barba- falsehood." Collection of all the ancient
rously murthered. And for so doing, poems, songs, and ballads, concerning
this, with the receipt of the said Collo- Robin Hood. 12mo. Longmans, Lon-
nell Henry Pretty, shall be a warrant. don, 1820, p. 104.
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It has been said by one who, by his mode of reciting them, made
fables more effective than treatises of morals—
"II faut imtruire et plaire:
Et center pour center me semble pen d'affaire;"
adding^ in explanation of his meaning,
"Une morale nue apporte de 1'ennuie,
Le conte fait passer le precepte avec lui."1
These Tories or outlaws, then, will be found to have had their
origin in the extraordinary revolutions which landed property in
Ireland underwent in Queen Elizabeth's, James the First's, Charles
the First's, Cromwell's, and Charles the Second's reigns— nothing
in the history of Europe being similar to the Cromwellian Settle-
ment except the conquests effected by the northern barbarians ; so
that, had Augustin Thierry only known it, he need not have selected
the Conquest of England by the Normans on the grounds of its
being the latest of those conquests where men, deprived of all that
makes life valuable, are seen resigning themselves to the sight of
strangers sitting as masters at their own hearths, or frantic with
despair, rushing to the forest to live there like wolves, in rapine,
murder, and independence.2
During the King's exile the great work of Cromwell was accom-
plished. At the .Restoration the lands of those who had stood
for the liberty of Ireland and the king's right, and those of all Ro-
man Catholics were in the possession of the Officers and Soldiers of
Cromwell's army, and of the Adventurers.
Generals, colonels, captains, and lieutenants of the Parliamen-
tary forces, now claimed the ancient castles of the royalist and
native nobility and gentry of Ireland as the residences and property
of themselves and their families. Or an Adventurer — some mer-
chant of London, or tradesman from a provincial town in England —
had set himself down with his wife and children, and servants, in
what had lately, and long before been, the mansion of some old
English family of the birth of Ireland; some Butler, Fitzgerald, or
Plunket, or of some nobleman or gentleman, Irish both by birth
and blood; some Kavanagh, McCarthy, O'Brien, or O'Keefe.
Or, harder still, some of the newer English of the birth of Ireland ;
some planter of James the First's reign had annexed the estate of
his late neighbour and friend ; nay, often his ally by marriage (and
i « Fables de La Fontaine." Livre vi., graphical Preface to the History of my
• i^K 5etLeL!°n< Historical Works and Theories," by
Let the reader consult-" Autobio- Augustin Thierry
37
many another's estate besides) to his own already too- wide domains,
bent on making estated gentlemen of all his sons.
It was thus Broghill possessed himself of the manor of Blarney,
and this many years before the army of Cromwell were assigned any
lands for their arrears. After some wavering, he joined Cromwell
upon his invasion of Ireland. The manor of Blarney seems to
have been his price, for in every Act and Ordinance of Parliament
relating to Irish lands during Cromwell's life and reign, there is
always a proviso, that nothing in the Act contained shall preju-
dice the right of Roger Lord Broghill to the castle and manor of
Blarney. It was the ancestral seat of Donagh McCarthy, Vis-
count Muskerry, brother-in-law of the Marquis of Ormond. It
lay within seven miles of Cork, and its master and Broghill
were familiar friends. But Broghill had the thirst for Irish
confiscations, like an hereditary disease inherent in his blood.
He was son of that first Earl of Cork who had come over to Ireland
(as was commonly said), a barefooted boy, not sixty years before,1
yet died the possessor of forfeited estates, reaching from the
city of Cork eastward, to Youghal, and westward almost to Crook-
haven, a length of nearly fifty miles.2 Lord Broghill was not
1 " Shortly before this resolution"
[i. e. of the gentlemen of the county of
Tipperary to take up arms in Christmas
Holydays of 1641, for their defence].
" Philip O'Dwire of Dounedromore
[Dundrum], a gentleman of such qua-
lity and estate yl he could not brook the
reviling language of Sir William St.
Leger [and he and the rest seeing] ye
Irish estates exposed to men of meane
birth, who aimed to raise estates by the
ruin of innocents, so that Sir W. Par-
sons and ye Earl of Corke, who, within
this sixty years past coming as naked lads
here without either friends, means, or
learning .... were glad, in the service
of one Keny, then Escheator General,
to earne their livelihood in his menial
service, wherein they learnt those tricks,
acquiring by hook and crooke, lands,
offices, and livings, that they were
shortly after the ablest men for riches'
in the Kingdom And, as for Sir
John Borlase, Sir W. S* Leger, ye
Lord Esmond, Sir Cha8 Coote, and
others of their conditions, which being
from single soldiers, were by ye exten-
sion of ye favours of ye succeeding
Kings and Queens of England advanced
to wealth and dignities, yet they did not
ascend by their gallantry, for there was
no occasion to draw their swords from
the beginning of King James's reign." —
Memorialls of the Warre begunn in 1641,
wrote by Mr. [James] Kearney, in the
Co. of Tipperary, in Febr. 165f . p. 28.
Carte Papers, MS., Bodleian Library,
Oxford, vol. 64, p 732, and following
pages.
2 Orrery (Broghill) writes thus to Pri-
mate Boyle, Lord Chancellor : —
" Charleville, March 10, 1667-8.
" DEARE COZEN, .... First, when I
married my son Broghill, because he was
not of age to join with me in settling a
jointure for his wife, I did binde all ye
estates I had acquired (which is all my
younger children are to have to live up-
on) as collateral security for that joyn-
ture till my son comes of age to joyn
with me in settling her joynture out of
my old Estate." Carte Papers, vol. xxxv.,
p. 162.
The lands obtained under Cromwell
and the Acts of Settlement, were usually
distinguished by the grantees from their
inherited Estates (which they called their
old Estate), by the name of their "New
Estate." Thus, Orrery says, that Ar-
thur Hill (ancestor of the present Mar-
quis of Downshire), settles his New
Estate on his second family. " Orrery's
Letters," vol. i., p. 112. So, Lord Mount-
rath makes a will leaving his New
Estate for the benefit of his younger
38
ashamed, in his lust for Irish land, to possess himself of his friend,
Muskerry's, noble castles and demesnes.
In like manner Sir Charles Coote, first Earl of Mountrath, and
son of the first settler in Ireland, Provost Marshal of Connaught,
already largely rewarded by James the First with rich pasture
lands in Roscommon, and Plantation lands in the county of Leitrim,
obtained the castle and demesne of Tirellan, near the town of Gal-
way, the ancient seat of the Marquis of Clanricard.
Meanwhile, the former inhabitants were either pining in confine-
ment and misery in Connaught, or, as soldiers of Charles the Second,
had taken conditions from the King of Spain. The nobility and
higher gentry, who had been colonels, lieutenant-colonels, and cap-
tains of the army commissioned by the king in Ireland in the years
1649, and had fought against Cromwell and Ireton, till 1652, ob-
tained similar rank in the regiments formed abroad, out of the
40,000 men, and more, that had retired to Spain and Flanders be-
tween 1652 and 1655.
Military service abroad was the resource of all the gentry, ex-
cept those who were too old or weak to fly, or were detained by a
charge of family and children, and were without means to maintain
them in foreign countries. The Duke of York, the Duke of Glou-
cester, the Marquis of Ormond, Lord Muskerry, became colonels-
in-chief; the principal exiled landed proprietors became lieutenant-
colonels and commissioned officers ; the lesser gentry, non-commis-
sioned officers. Many a gentleman even trailed a pike as a common
soldier among his former tenants and followers, happy thus to find
a living that brought no disgrace or forfeiture of social rank. The
Irish regiments abroad deemed themselves, during all the period of
their service, subjects of King Charles the Second. They marched
and fought under his standards or ensigns, and (unfortunately for
themselves) held his commands paramount.
This is what the king himself says of them in his Gracious De-
claration of the 30th November, 1660, for the Settlement of Ireland
(afterwards embodied; in the Act of Settlement).1 In fact, they
changed sides according to his wishes, from Spain to France, and
from France to Spain, making him powerful abroad by having such
a force at his back. They had their return to Ireland constantly
in view. They fought and bled to establish a claim to be restored.
children. «• Report of the Committee of ing the time of our being beyond the Seas,
the Board concerning the Earl of Mount- when, with all cheerfulness and obe-
rath and the Countess, and the younger dience, they received and submitted to
children of y' late Earl." Carte Pa- our orders, and betook themselves to
pers vol. lx., p. 110; no date. This that service which we directed as most
the common arrangement. convenient and behoofeful at that time to
"We did, and must always remem- us, though attended with inconvenience
the great affection a considerable enough to themselves." — 14 & 15 Chas
portion of this Nation exprest to us dur- II., chap. 2, clause 4.
39
Their hopes, accordingly, at the Bestoration, were high. They had
dissolved their Confederation in 1648, and put their forces under
the king's command, represented by Ormond. They were pro-
mised, by the peace of 1648, an Act of Pardon and Oblivion, and
restoration to their estates. They had proclaimed him king in
Ireland, and fought against Cromwell to recover his crown for
him ; and had laid him under fresh obligations by their services
beyond sea. Both obligations were acknowledged by the King's
Declaration.
But what to do with the Cootes, the Broghiils, the Coles,
the Massareens, the Audley Mervyns, and other Cromwellians in
possession ? After the death of Oliver the Protector, the king wrote
secretly to Sir Charles Coote from Breda, that what lands he had got
hold of should be secured to him if he would bring him in, and
authorized him to assure any others who would join him, of theirs.1
The only way to a settlement after such an engagement was to
disqualify as many of the Cromwellians in possession, as it might
be safe to put out, and to find decent pretences for barring the
restoration of as many of the Irish as possible. The lands thus dis-
engaged were to reprize the Cromwellians for estates taken from
them, to be restored to their former proprietors.
Imagination, then, may easily paint the scene that Ireland pre-
sented in the autumn of 1660, at the opening of the Court for Exe-
cuting the king's "Gracious Declaration for the settlement of all
interests there." In many a castle was some fierce Cromwellian
colonel or captain, or man-at-arms, with his sons, determined to main-
tain by his sword (if he could not do it by chicane) what was gained
by the sword. Thus Lord Massareen said of the debate in the House
of Peers, touching Sir Henry O'NeiPs estate in his possession, tak-
ing at last the king's printed Declaration in his hand, " That he
would have the benefit on't by this !" putting his hand to his sword.2
Or some colonel, as colonel Edward Warren, that told one Mr.
Bermingham, seeking to recover as an Innocent, the lands in his,
(Warren's) possession, by right of an entail, " If the English again
1 The King, to Sir Charles Coote. my service, I do give you and them my word
" Brussels, March 16, 16f§. to make good, I resolve to make
'* I cannot wonder that the you an Earl, and to confer such an office
Son of such a father should desire, and and command upon you as shall very
attempt to do an act worthy of him, well please you, and to take your whole
and which must contribute much to the family into my care, and particular care
preservation of his memory If in such manner as shall cause you to
my own person be necessary, I will, God believe that I am very heartily,
willing, come to you, except it be more " Your affectionate friend,
necessary that I go to England. In the " CHARLES R."
mean time whatever you shall promise in Carte's "Original Letters and Papers,"
my name, and in my behalf, that is in my vol. ii., p. 314, 2 vols. 8vo. London, 1739.
power to perform for the encouragement and 8 Carte Papers, MS., Bodleian Li-
reward of those who shall join with you in brary, Oxford, vol. G. G., p. 178.
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take arms in their hands they will cut off your tayles."1 Such were
the English, " the ins."
Round the doors of the newly opened Court of Claims may be
pictured an anxious crowd of impoverished noblemen, tattered
gentlemen of old descent, some of English blood, some of pure
Irish, many of them soldiers of foreign air, " with patched buff coats,
jackboots, and bilbo blade ;" broken-hearted widows and orphans.
These were the " outs," the dispossessed Irish. Some of them had
spent six years in misery in Connaught ; some ten years in sieges
and battles under perpetual fire in France and Flanders. For,
from the known bravery of their race they were ever allowed the
post of honour, when it happened also to be the post of danger ;2
others in garrets and cellars in Paris or Bruges. The dispossessed
Irish were classed, when claimants under the Act of Settlement,
into Innocents, Article men, Ensign men, Nominees, Letterees, Mero
motu men, Proviso men, besides other names ; but the four first
were the chief classes. Widows ; men that were boys at school in
1641, or abroad studying in France or Spain, aged, sick, and impo-
tent men, and such as had been transplanted " only on account of
their religion," — these are instances of " Innocents."
But if any of them had lived at his home in Munster or Con-
naught, or in the parts under the rule of the Confederates, though
never so quietly, it was a bar to innocence. This was to " have
lived in the rebel quarters ;" and yet no English garrison would
trust them, nor had food for them. If it was alleged in their behalf,
that the law never before had deemed the family criminal that lived
quietly in their own home, doing nothing (as Sir Nicholas Plunket
urged before the king and council at Whitehall) ; it was answered
by Sir Charles Coote : "If this disqualification be taken off, the
number of Innocents will be so great, that it will endanger the in-
terests of the Adventurers and Soldiers ; and will give the Irish a
majority in Parliament."3 If the Innocent had accepted land in
Connaught, he was " postponed," which was equivalent to being dis-
mist, although he and his family were driven thither, and would be
hanged, or else transported if they stayed, or starved unless they
took the pittance of land offered for their support. In order, then,
to be restored, they must claim in default of Innocency under the
Articles of the Peace of 1648. This promised to the Irish who
observed it, a pardon and restoration. The claimant would then be
called " an Articleman." But Articlemen were only to be restored
after Innocents had been provided for. If he could not claim
articles, he must then resort to his claim as Ensignman, one of
1- G G^p' 17a 3 Letter of Sir Charles Coote to O-
P 0 mMfc"?. w ^a» Swift mond' Dated- Dublin Castle. J™e 19,
*«JV2S I*1** "Wo"*8' ed"ed 1661,-Carte Papers, Bodleian Library
by Sir Walter Scott, vol. xvn. p. 449. Oxford, Vol. F. F. p. 142.
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" those who continued with, or served faithfully under our ensigns
beyond the seas." These, however, though the best deserving,
were to be restored last of all.
If ever there was an Innocent it was Sir Thomas Sherlock, of
Butlerstown, near the city of Waterford. On the 10th October of
1660, the King ordered that he should be restored on the report of
Lord Chancellor Eustace, Arthur Annesley, and the other refe-
rees. He had been besieged in his castle by the Irish in 1641 ;
and imprisoned by them in Waterford, and thus forced to take the
oath of association ; but as soon as he could get free, fled to Eng-
land, and only returned upon Cromwell's invasion. Cromwell
ordered his estate to be reserved from being set out to the soldiery,
or if set out, that it should be restored to Sir Thomas Sherlock,
and the souldiers reprized. The King, taking this report into con-
sideration, "and finding (so His Majesty's letter runs) the said Sir
Thomas Sherlock to be very much oppressed in the late time of
tyranny by those in power, though they themselves seem to be sen-
sible of his sufferings, and willing to remedy them, doe hold
ourselves bound in honour and justice to see that right be done
unto the said Sir Thomas," and accordingly commanded as well
the pretended proprietors of any of his houses, or lands, to forbear
further intermeddling, and directed " our beloved cousin Roger,
Lord Broghill, Earle of Orrery, Lord President of Munster, within
whose government the said county of Waterford is, to see this order
put into execution."1
But just as the Cromwellian soldiery refused submission to the
Lord Protector's order, insisting they had an Act of Parliament
for Sir Thomas Sherlock's, and other Irish Papists' lands, so Lord
Broghill and the sheriffs pretended that " a Paper Order1' was no
warrant in matters of land. Yet, when the King's Gracious De-
claration was issued, which was framed by the assistance of the
Adventurers and Soldiers, they then alleged that it was only an
Act of State, and no safe rule to walk by (so the Judges in-
formed them), in questions of inheritance. And, finally, when they
had gotten the King's Declaration turned into an Act of Settlement,
they had fresh scruples and difficulties.
The tale is soon told. Worn out by poverty and disappointment,
Sir Thomas Sherlock died in three years afterwards, broken-hearted,
and a pauper, and was buried at the public expense, as is evidenced
by the following entry : — " To Paul Sherlock, sonne and heire of
Sir Thomas Sherlock, deceased, for defraying the charges of bury-
ing the said Sir Thomas, as by concordatum dated 9th December,
1663, Fiftie pounds."
1 Carte Papers, vol. xli., p. 54.
G
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But suppose the old proprietor had got into possession under the
King s order, he was not secure. Take the case of Walter rune
of Cullamnore, in the county of Westmeath, Esq., a Nominee, that
is, one specially named in the Declaration, and Acts of Settlement
and Explanation, as, " having for reasons known unto us, in an
especial manner merited our grace and favour,' and by the Decla-
ration and Act of Settlement1 to be restored to his estate, but
afterwards by the Act of Explanation2 to his chief mansion only,
and 2000 acres contiguous.
In his petition to the Duke of Ormond in the year 1666, he
states, that neither he nor his deceased father accepted any lands
from the usurpers in Connaught. His father was restored to part of
his estate under His Majesty ^Letters, in the year 1661, which he (the
petitioner) continued to hold until that he was dispossessed (by an
injunction from the Commissioners of Clairnes) two days before May
last. His family, he says, " have no residence att present by reason
of his giving up possession, which is already the loss of his Stocke,
the loss of his Cropp of Corne (which the Adventurer immediately
seized upon) and the ruine of himself and family."
" That his Estate is contiguous, and not 2000 acres.
11 That the said Tuite is constantly resident in this Citty of Dublin
this twelve months of Satturday last, having not sixpence this halfe year
paste to relieve him.
44 That one of said Tuite's sonns, within a month after they lost their
possession, through cold and want, sickened, and is now on the point of
death, given over by the doctors, without any hope of recovery.
44 That the said Tuite's eldest sonne, for want of any other place of
residence or anything to relieve him, followed him to this Citty, where he
sickened allsoe, and was this month past in the hands of doctors, but now
beginns to mend if he had wherewith to relieve him.
44 That the said Tuite's mother, daughter, and two other of his sonnes
are ever since May last ranging, the Lord knows where; having not a bit
to putt into their mouths.
"May it therefore please your Grace [he concludes] to take pity of
your Petitioner's most miserable condition in giving him some present
relief, as alsoe that your Grace may recommend him to the Commissioners
of the Court of Clairnes, that hee may be one of the first Nominees that
they shall settle in his 2000 A. And the rather that there is not any of
y* Nominees in so badd a condition, haveing for the most part of them
gott Lands in Connaught, and the rest of them some other grants or lands
by way of Custodium, or otherwise to relieve them."3
1 14 & 15 Chas II. [A. D. 1662], chap. chap. 2, sec. cxlviii.
/l-'^Vo r Carte Papers, Bodleian Library, vol.
» 17 & 18 of same kmg [A. D. 1665], lx., p. 267.
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To pass from Innocents and Nominees to Ensignmen, a most
numerous class.
Upon the King's return they were, for the first year or so,
more fortunate than some others of their countrymen. Little did
they then expect that not one of them would get, by the King's
Declaration or Acts of Settlement, so much of their fathers'
lands as would serve for a grave.1
The Duke of York's, Colonel Farrel's, and Colonel Grace's regi-
ments, continued still embodied at Mardike, in Holland. Great
numbers of this class rode in the King's and Duke of York's Life-
guards. Thus, some of them had a present livelihood. The body
of them appointed Committees to watch over their interests during
the concoction of the King's Declaration by the Agents of the
Adventurers and Souldiers, at the Council Board, where they fared
badly; being put last for restoration. They remained in London,
attending and petitioning while the Act of Settlement was on the
anvil in 1662 at the Court at White Hall; but they did not find
their condition mended in the Act of Settlement. And they
watched and prayed again in 1664 and 1665, while the Act of Ex-
planation was in contrivance. But this put an end for ever to the
hopes and claims of the Irish.
In 1662 the regiments at Mardike were disbanded. The re-
formed, or reduced officers, crowded the neighbourhood of White
Hall, seeking for some relief for their distress. In February, 166f,
they reminded His Majesty how they had repaired to him in Flanders
from their services elsewhere abroad, in 1656, leaving advantageous
employments. They would return, they said, to try for the aid of
their friends in their own country, if they dared.
But, notwithstanding their fidelity, they feared that " if they
returned to Ireland their arms would be taken from them, and they
thrown into jail on pretence of dangerousness."2
To this petition they got only a verbal answer assuring them of
His Majesty's care. They waited until they had pawned and sold all
they had, even their very clothes and arms, to maintain themselves ;
and then applied again.3
They reminded His Majesty how they were broken in France,
because they acted according to his Orders, and are made incapable
of serving any foreign Prince, because of their constant adhering to
1 Sec. 1124. "The Irish that was us eye-witnesses, being A Treatise or
abroad, followed the King in the French Account of the Warr or Rebellion in
and Spanish services, as well they of the Ireland since the year 1641 Carte
Nuncio's party as the Ormonists :— Not Papers, vol. 64, pp. 418, 431.
one of them got by the. Act of Settle- 2 Calendar of State Papers " Doraes-
ment as much land as would serve for a tic." 8vo. London. 1860.
grave." Collections by friends, some of 3 Ibid., p. 207.
44
and following His Majesty's fortunes; yet, in their own Country, are
not intrusted with, nor admitted into any employment, military or
civil, whereby they might be able to subsist ; that their estates are
enjoyed by those who got them from the usurpers ; that they are
run in debt for bread and clothes ; some are dead for want, others
in prison for debt, the rest in a starving condition ; all expecting
the same misfortune, " unless your Majesty will, at last, effectually
restore your Petitioners to their said Estates, which the Earl of
Orrery, at the Council Board, in 1660 (Sir Audley Mervyn, then
being joint-agent with him, and concurring with him), did, in your
Majesty's presence, promise should be done in three months, whereas
three years are expired."1
The delay demanded, as they reminded the King, was to enable
the possessors of their Estates to have a convenient time to remove
themselves, their families, and stocks. " Meantime, whilst these
possessors have increased their stocks, the Petitioners live in lan-
guishing and sad conditions, especially since they lost their employ-
ments in your Majesty's service, which was their only stock and
livelihood/'3
They lingered in London on the business of their claims, until
the passing of the Act of Explanation in the year 1665, which
made all petitioning vain. It is truly pitiable to trace their descent
downwards to very beggary, and many of them (and those not the
least fortunate) to death. To close their complainings which, per-
haps, have become as wearisome here as they became to the King
and his courtiers, and councillors at White Hall, their last petition
follows in full : —
44 To the King's Most Excellent Matie.
44 The humble Peticon of the Officers who served under your Matie"
Royal Ensigns beyond ye Sea,
44 SHEWETH,
44 That most of ye Officers who served under your Royall Ensignes be-
yond sea have perished by famine, since your Maties happy restauracon, in
soliciting for theire Estates, and the few of them that remaines are now
like to perish by the Plague, haveing not any meanes to bring them put
of this Towne, nor knoweing whither they shall goe.
11 Your Petic6ners humble request is that in regard they are but
a few in number and theire estates but small, Your Matie will
be gratiously pleased to put an end to theire sufferings, by
< Manuscript Collections relating to in the Record Tower, Dublin Castle.
w Act of Settlement, Vol. B., p. 413, ' Ibid., Vol. D., p. 121.
45
ordering that a Provisoe may be incerted in this bill to re-
store the Peticoners to their former Estates.
" And yor Peticoners shall pray
" MAJOR JOHN NEALE.
"CAPTAIN DANIEL O'KEEFFE.
' CAPTAIN WM. TUITE.
4 CAPTAIN TERENCE BYRNE.
* CAPTAIN DAVID DANNAN.
LIEUTENANT RICHARD BARRY.
LIEUTENANT JOHN Fox.
LIEUTENANT WM. BARRY.
LIEUTENANT THOS. CUSACK.
LIEUTENANT HENRY TUITE.
* CAPTAIN MICHAEL BRETT.
* CAPTAIN WM. STAPLETON.
* CAPTAIN WALTER BUTLER. " Reformed Officers.
4 CAPTAIN PHILIP BARRY. " CAPTAIN CHARLES M/CARTY.
44 COLLONELL P. WALSH.
44 COLLONELL RICHD. FITZGERALD.
44 COLLONELL CONNOR O'DRiscoL."1
The doors of Whitehall need now no longer be waited at.
The doors of the Court of Claims, too, were virtually shut against
them. Every gate of hope was closed. But return to Ireland
they must, to rejoin their companions in misery, and add a fresh
batch to the crowds of unfortunate anxious wretches that sued be-
fore the Commissioners of Claims, or hopelessly wandered near
mansions and demesnes that had been their fathers' or their own.
Ah, happy hills — ah, peaceful shades —
Ah, fields beloved in vain !
Where once their careless childhood strayed
A stranger yet to pain !
One may realize the condition of the Ensignmen on their return
to their native country more fully, perhaps, by a few instances.
In 1665 Captain Charles Farrel petitioned the Lord Lieutenant
and Council in behalf of himself and his brothers Roger Farrel
and Francis Farrel, all sons of James Farrel, of Bally vaghan, in
the county of Longford, Charles being his eldest son and heir.
Charles had never been in Ireland from the 28th of April, 1641,
until His Majesty's happy restoration, and never involved in the
rebellion, but, on the contrary, served His Majesty and his royal
father in the war of England, in which service he was taken
prisoner, and afterwards banished by the usurpers into foreign
parts, where he and his brothers betook themselves to His Majesty's
service. From time to time, and more particularly when the
petitioner, Charles, served in St. Gillaine, His Majesty was pleased
to send his orders for their service, whereupon he immediately
obeyed and served His Majesty.
1 Manuscript Collections relating to preserved in the Record Tower, Dublin
the Act of Settlement, Vol. B., p. 418, Castle.
46
Upon the Restoration the King gave him his Letters to be re-
stored to his estate. This was denied him, but the Lord Lieute-
nant and Council ordered him one year's rent, of which, how-
ever, he only received £20, being ordered off with his company to
Tangier, and so would not attend to the prosecution thereof ; he
and his brothers continuing there till the latter end of August,
1663. And there, notwithstanding the petitioners were reduced,
and only paid off until the 4th of May previous, they did war, and
were engaged in the fight against the Moors on the 24th of June
following, in which service the petitioners, Charles and Roger, were
sore wounded.1 When they returned from Africa, the time for
claiming "Innocence" before the Commissioners of the Court of
Claims was expired, but Charles, with great difficulty, by reason of
the opposition of the Protestant Cavaliers who served the King in
Ireland before 5th of June, 1649 (commonly called the Forty-nine
Officers), and who claimed to have the county of Longford as part
of their security to satisfy their arrears, got a proviso in the Act
of Explanation to be restored.2
Eleven years afterwards, however, he was still wandering about
seeking help to recover his estate, as appears by the King's Letter
of 12th of January, 166y, who therein laments that so well de-
serving an officer had as yet had no benefit of the King's Letters,
nor of the Act of Parliament, and begging Ormond and the Council
to exert any powers they might be invested with on his favour.3
Another of these Ensignmen was LordCastleconnell. Lord Wil-
liam Bourke, Baron Castleconnell, in the county of Limerick, hard
by the falls of the Shannon, was a kinsman of the Duke of Ormond.
In the last general " rising out" of the kingdom at the Marquis of
Ormond's commands in 1650, to oppose the advance of Cromwell's
forces, Lord Castleconnell, for his birth and possessions, was elected
by the gentry of the county of Tipperary to command their levy.4
When the common calamitie (as he says himself in his petition to
His Majesty, July 1, 1662), disabled him to give other demon-
stration of his loyalty to His Majesty than the service of his bare
and humble person, he betook himself to the King's standards be-
yond sea. At the Restoration he returned, and waited in hopes to
be restored, but His Majesty being full of business (as Lord Castle-
connell suggests), did not admit the consideration of his suppliant's
concerns. He was named, however, in the King's gracious Decla-
ration, among those to be restored as having faithfully served under
1 Collections concerning the Act of xliii., p. 334.
Settlement Vol. F p. 265, Record 4 Letter of the gentry of the county
• 17 L^S rh TS ,T • UN of TiPPerary to the Marquis of Ormond,
> 17 fc 18 Chas. II. (Insh), chap. 2., Lord Lieutenant of Ireland ; dated
'Carte Papers, Bodleian Library, vol.
the King's ensigns beyond the seas.1 While in the greatest indi-
gence (he continues), he served " your Royal Majestic five or six
years in the Netherlands, trayling a pike in the Duke of York's
regiment [i. e. as a common soldier], he understood no miserie.
But now he has runne in debt for food and raiment, and is at the
end of his creditt, in imminent hazard of imprisonment for his
debts, and unable farther to subsist if your Majestic relieve him
not."2
In pity of his fallen fortunes, and in the difficulty of restoring
him to his estate, the Duke of Ormond prevailed with the King to
grant him a temporary premium of £1000 a year. On 3rd April,
1667, in thanking Lord Ormond for this seasonable relief, he opens
his sad case to him, baffled as he finds himself even of this allevia-
tion by the delays and tricks of Sir Daniel Bellingharn of the
treasury.
" My Lord (he proceeds), as my father, who pretended ye honour of
a neer relation to your Grace and the Dutchess's family, and by ye means
of your ancestor Thomas Earl of Ormond was bred in his house, who re-
covered his estate and honour for him, I doe take the presumption to
open my miserable condition to your Grace, and doe expect no less favour
from you, having ever found your Grace's willingness to look on persons
of my condition in these sad times. ,
44 1 am confident your Grace knows how faithfully I have served II. M.
and your Grace at home and abroad, and am during my life resolved to
dispose of myself as your Grace shall think fitt. Therefore I humbly
beg your Grace's pardon that I plainly open my unfortunate grievance;
for, on my word, my Lord, I was forced, as Captain Henesy can inform
your Grace, to pawne the very clothes I had for £20, to bring me out of
Dublin, and ever since I am in so great a povertie that if I had a mind to
waite on your Grace I am not able to appeare for want of cloathes — my
wife and children being ready to forsake house and home, and all ye little
stocke I had being taken for rent. Sir Yalentine Browne and Sir Edward
Fitzharris, being engaged for what monies brought me for Ireland, are
like to suffer for me. Therefore being not able to waite on your Grace
to present my humble petition, I took the bouldness to write these un-
couth lines, begging of your Grace to send Sir George Lane or Secretary
Page to Sir Daniel Bellingham, to cause him to see me satisfied my arrears,
if your Grace shall so think fitt, and your Grace ever oblige him that is
" Your Grace's
" Most obedient, faithfull servant,
" CA8TLECONNEL.3
" Castledrohid,
"April 3, 1667."
1 14 & 15 Chas. II. (Irish), chap. 2, to inquire into the frauds practised by
King's Declaration, sec. 26. Sir Daniel Bellingham and the Earl of
2 Carte Papers, vol. xlii., p. 376. Anglesey, on the pensioners, and in
3 Carte Papers, vol. xxxv., p. 225. — other ways, we have the following in the
" A Commission having been appointed Report of the Commissioners: — Lord
48
So great, however, were the numbers of the distressed nobility
and gentry seeking some respite from starvation by the Pension
List, that before 1675 Lord Castleconners pension was reduced to
£100 a year, and this so badly paid, that at Michaelmas, 1680, it
was two years in arrear, together with pensions of like amount to
Lord Netterville, Lord Trimleston, Lord Upper Ossory, Lord Dun-
boyne, Lord Brittas, Lord Louth, Sir William Talbot, Lord Roche's
children, and others.1
But all these, and others on the pension list, were " English,
as the term was understood in Ireland. For the Irish— the Far-
rels, the Costellos, theO'Neils, the M'Guires— there were no pen-
sions. What, then, must be their resource? First, the charity of
their former poor tenants and dependants — for the poor are ever
charitable ; and hospitality and sympathy are the heavenly virtues
of the Irish. Next, some occasional relief from any more fortunate
kinsman or friend whose estate might have escaped the eye of the
Anglesey, they say, returned warrants
in his accounts as being fully paid,
though the parties that gave the acquit-
tance in full u did seldom receive more
than $di'; sometimes not above half of
the sums conteynedin such acquittance*."
"One remarkable instance of this
kind wee have mett with in the case of
the Lord Castle Council, whose original
Letter under his own hand to Sir Daniel
Bellingham hath beene shewne to us,
wherein his Lordship desired Sir Daniel
Bellingham to pay the bearer thereof
some part of the money which was due
to his Lop. upon a former warrant,
and offered to give Sir Daniel Belling-
ham double assignments or Acquit-
tances for all he should pay according
as had formerly been used between
them. Whereupon we examined Sir Da-
niel Bellingham, who, being surprised
with the sight of his letter, complained :
4 the information was very unbecoming
a gentleman.' Yet confessed it might
be true that he had received a moyety,
but said, withal, the matter was not
great, nor could all the monies paid the
Lord Castle Connell amount to above
£500. This being an offence of a much
more haynous nature than Sir Daniel B.
did seem to apprehend ; upon further
search into it we discovered a deed,
dated the 9th of Nov. 1665, under the
hand and seal of John Pierson, Esq.,
(now, or late, the Secretary, as we are in-
formed of the Earl of Anglesey), whereof
the original is ready to be produced, and
the copy follows in these words :_
" Whereas the Right Honbl*. William
Lord Castle Connell hath intrusted in
my hands a writing under his hand,
bearing date the 3d of Sept., 1665, ac-
knowledging the receipt of £1000 from
the Right Honourable Arthur Earl of
Anglesey, His Majestie's Vice-Trea-
surer and Treasurer at Warrs in Ire-
land. Now Know All Men by these
presents, That I, John Pierson, of Dub-
lin, Esq., do hereby bind me, my heirs,
Executors, and Administrators, to pay
unto his Lordship or his Assigns upon
the receipt of the sum of £1000 the sum
of £500 sterling. Witness my hand and
Seal, this 9th of November, 1665.
"JOHN PIERSON. [Seal.]"
" Witnesses Present,
Richard Burgate,
John Bourke."
After giving some other instances the
Commissioners conclude —
" All which we hereby certifie under
our hands and seals this 20th of August,
1669.
"Buckingham.
Orlando Bridgman, C. J.
Albemarl. J. Roberts.
T. Osborn. Edmd. Hyndman.
Heneage Finch. Ed. Walker.
" This is a true copy of the original
Certificate which was read to His Ma-
jesty in Councell, 22d of September.
"Eo. WALKER, S. Morland."
Carte Papers, vol. xxxvi., pp. 470, 480,
1 Carte Papers, vol. Hii., p. 225.
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Cromwellian soldiery, and the still more dangerous " discoverer,"
some Earl of Dover, some Colonel Byron, some Sir John Stephens,
some Edward Vernon, of Oxon, who has had the poor gentleman's
estate spied like a prey, and has obtained His Majesty's letters for
a grant of it to him, as his lordship's or honour's "discovery."
The last resource — should he not have been able or willing to
take some small portion of his ancient lands to farm under the new
proprietor — is, levies from the Adventurer or Officer in possession to
support the old proprietor, his wife and children. This was effected
by a regular circular notice, describing the necessity he was under
of marrying a daughter or sending a son beyond sea. Or some of
his old dependants, Tories of the neighbourhood, sympathising with
their former master and his distressed family, seized the usurping
stranger's cows, or boldly robbed upon the highway, and thus pro-
vided for him, and for themselves, too.
Thus, on the 29th of April, 1670, we find the Lord Lieutenant
(Lord Berkeley) and Council addressing Viscount. Charlemont at
Castle-Caulfield, in the county of Tyrone, informing him, that they
are given to understand that some of the sept of the O'Neils, and
others in that province [of Ulster] who have no visible means of
subsistence, do yet[ live at a very high rate ; some of their sons
being in rebellion ; from whom, by the spoil of His Majesty's good
subjects, their parents have their support. And such, and so great
is the bouldness of divers rebells in those parts, that they presume
to send their ticquetts or notes to some of His Majesty's good sub-
jects in those parts, requiring them to send to the parents or friends
of those rebels, for helpes in corn or cattle towards the marriage of
their daughters or other relations — which the poor people dare not
oppose, for fear of having their houses burnt, and other mischiefs
done them by those rebels. And for as much as these offences are
of a transcendant nature, and may not be lightly passed over with-
out such punishment inflicted on the offenders as may be exemplary,
and so His Majesty's good subjects freed from such apprehensions,
Lord Charlemont is to examine what persons have presumed to
offend in any of those kinds, and to endeavour the apprehension of
such offenders and their parents, to the end that His Excellency
and the Council may give such further orders as the case shall re-
quire. And so His Excellency and Council bade his Lordship
very heartily farewell. From the Council Chamber in Dublin, 29th
April, 1670.1
But it sometimes happened that those whose humanity had got
the better of their national principles were dealt with by the State
as the offenders. Thus, on the 27th May, 1675, Symon Bichard-
i See the original, Domestic Corre- preserved in the Record Tower, Dublin
spondence, 1668. (Council Book), p. 72, Castle.
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son, Francis Kichardson, Henry Richardson, and Francis Lucas,
Esquires (probably of the family of the Richardsons, then and now
settled at Rich Hili, in the county of Armagh), were summoned to
appear before the Lord Lieutenant and Council in person, on the
7 tli June, to answer a complaint preferred against them for har-
bouring some Tories that lately robbed Mr. King. And there is a
little postscript, of some significance, to Sir John Davys' summons,
to the following effect :— "It is also His Excellency's pleasure that
Mr. Francis Lucas's wife, together with Mrs. [Miss] Mary Brookes,
do appear as above/' *
For it will appear, when we come to the history of Redmond
O'Hanlon, that the sympathies of the gentler sex were sometimes
engaged on behalf of the Tories. And we shall find no less a per-
son than Deborah Annesley, the daughter of Henry Jones, Bishop
of Meath (formerly Scout Master General to Cromwell), holding
correspondence with that gallant outlaw, and concerting measures
with him to preserve his life. All kinds of unworthy motives were
of course attributed to any gentlemen who complied with these
poor Tories ; but there can be little doubt that they felt for their
sad condition, and remembered that they themselves were in pos-
session of their lands and livings.
Ulster was their chief seat. The passing of the Act of Expla-
nation on 24th December, 1665, which shut the door of hope on
almost all the Irish, caused the deepest discontent and despair —
particularly amongst the native gentry of Ulster, who continued to
claim the relics of their estates left with them by King James the
First after the plantation of Ulster, which they had still hoped to
be established in by the Court of Claims.3 The war with the
Dutch occurring at this time inspired them with hopes, and from
1666 to 1690 the Government and the British Planters were kept
in continual alarm.
For, contrary to the received opinion, Ulster continued to be
the dangerous part of Ireland till after the War of the Revolution,
when it was nearly colonized anew by the Scotch suttlers and camp-
followers of King William's foreign forces. Eighty thousand small
Scotch Adventurers came in between 1690 and 1698, into different
parts of Ireland, but chiefly into Ulster.
I Domestic Correspondence, 1668. lious General O'Neil, and brought their
(Council Book), p. 72, Record Tower, Regiments to Ormond, viz. : the Lord
Dubl.n Castle. Iveagh, Colonel O'Neil, of the Fews,
There was not above three or four Colonel M'Mahon, and Colonel O'Reilly.
Roman Catholics of Ulster restored to None of these, nor anv under their Com-
their Estates, which were of the Marquis mand, got one foot of their estates, and
f Antrim, Sir Henry O'Neil, M'Gennis, yet the family of the Cootes were ad-
Tvv M™ T-°re', u ' ^yet' when Owen vanced to great honours." Collections
A S1 t£E*? the JCootes in Derry by friends, some of us eye-witnesses of
19], to y« destruction of the the warr and rebellion in Ireland since
King » interest in Ireland ; at that very 1641. Preserved amongst the Carte
time four Colonels quitted their rebel- Papers, vol. Ixiv p 431
51
On March the 4th, 166J, writes an intelligencer of Sir Richard
Kennedy, one of the Barons of the Exchequer: " In Londonderry
and Tyrone I had the company of several of the Irish gentry, whom
I found in general unsatisfied with the passing of the Bill [of Ex-
planation], and espetially the O'Neils & O'Reillys, M'Mahons &
M'Guires, and the O'Donnels and O'Kanes .... and there are
a considerable number of young gentlemen of those families much
in despair, and in their discourse very bitter against the proceedings
of this Parliament ":
At this period "the condition of the most part of Ulster" (to use
the words of Sir George Acheson, ancestor of the present Viscount
Gosford) " was such as none dare travel or inhabit there, but as in
an enemys country: no trade, no work, no improvement;" all which
he attributes to the Tories. They are against all industry and im-
provement, as tending to bring in British to extrude them. So that
it is now held a point of gallantry to turn Tories, and all their dis-
courses and songs are in their praise, and they accounted heroes.
The embarassed English gentry have them for dependents and pur-
veyors— the common English, living abroad in detached houses,
fear them.
Formerly they robbed, and went upon their keeping ; now they
are in armed bands,2 and they force most part of the British to pay
them yearly contributions, " in paying of which, if they be negligent
or not punctual, they presently come, rob their houses, drive away
their cattle into their retreats ; that is, those mountainous and boggy
and coarse lands inhabited only by natives, whereof there are many in
Ulster, and here they detain them till they pay much more than
was at first demanded. This new way of Torying was first brought
in among them, and shown them by such as had been abroad to
f brraigne warrs, . . . the like practices being too much used abroad,
and permitted the soldiery by military connivance.
One great encouragement of Toryism was, "the foolish ancient
J " N. D." to Sir Richard Kennedy. diocess of Raphoe, in the Barony of
Carte Papers, vol. xxxiv., p. 390. Kilmacrenan.
2 In a long list of " Suspected men in Edmd. Oge O'Donell, a constant Tory,
Ulster" at this time, differently de- and abuses ye country, and still upon
scribed, appear the following : — his guard, with a company of idlers in
C°. Donegall : — ye. barony of Boylagh and Balagh.
Edmd. McSwyne,
Neile McSwyne,
Donaghy MCS wyne.
Brothers to Coll. Owen Groome O'Boyle, a murtherer, of
Mullmury McSwyne Rosses [a district], in ye same barony,
who liveth beyond Farmanagh:—
Doe Castle, comon Oughie O'Home, lately come out of
cosherers, and goes up and downe armed Spain, and another brother of his.
with swords, fowling peeces and dogs. Antrim : —
Noe constable dares execute any war- HuSh O'Dornan, Chief of y tnars of
rant against ym in those parts. Glan welch, in ye Barony of Carry, and
Mullmury McSwyne, son to Coll. Mul- the rest of y" friers there — Carte Pa^
murry McSwyne. Pers> Bodleian Library, vol. xxxiv., p.
Shane O'Deritry, Vicar-Gene. for ye 290-
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way of hospitality to receive and give food to all comers of their
nation, not inquiring the cause of their coming or business; so that
they continue wandering about from house to house as long as they
will . . . alledging themselves Innocents, but necessitated so to
do, having not wherewithal to pay the fees of their tryall and acquit-
tal'" [in the Court of Claims].
" One design of these men is," says Sir George Acheson, « that
thus terrifying and discouraging theBrittish, having nothing certain,
but all at'their mercy, they will induce them by degrees to leave
those places of danger and recede into those more secure, which they
daily begin now to do; and so the lands will be laid waste, none
else daring to take them, whereby the natives will rent them at such
mean values as they please, and thereby embody themselves, and
grow numerous and opulent."
Sir George Acheson's remedy is a truly military kind of justice.
An officer with a "volant party" of troopers is to be established,
to be at liberty to call upon any man to stand in the King's name,
and give an account of himself, and to shoot him if he don't; if he
does, to try him by a jury on the spot, and, if guilty, " to proceed
to sentence and (after Christian preparation) to hang him." In
which circumstances many a man would rather stand his chance of
a volley from the troopers than a verdict of the jurors.1
It is quite plain, however, from the various engagements which
the Lord Lieutenant and Council entered into with Tories all over
the kingdom — for killing each other, or for abjuring the realm, or
for pardon and liberty to stay in it on condition of driving out other
Tories within a given time — that Sir George Acheson's scheme had
every recommendation but practicability. The Tories were, in fact,
too numerous, and the forces at the disposal of the Government too
few to cope with them in the wild and difficult countries then fre-
quent in Ireland.
It was very rarely that they were taken in any large numbers by
means of the many ambushes laid for them. However, in January,
1666, a dozen Tories were "happened upon" (by some great good
luck) in Leinster. A special commission was issued to try them.
The Duke of Ormond wrote upon that occasion to Lord Orrery,
who had entered into some engagement with an Irish gentleman in
Munster (of course nameless) to bring in some Tories of that pro-
vince, dead or alive,—
44 1 received your Lordship's of the 12th [January, I66f] when I
was only returned from taking a week's divertisement of hunting and
'"The Tories ; of Ulster," by Sir Carte Papers, Bodleian Library, vol.
George Acheson, Knt. and Bart. [1667]. xlv., p. 309.
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hawking at Maddenstown [beside the Curragh of Kildare]. I hope, by the
diligence of Captain Martin, Sir Theophilus Jones's Officer, who hath taken
about a dozen Tories, that the knot of them on Leinster and upon the borders
of Ulster is pretty well broken, or will be by the time Sir Jerome Alex-
ander (Second Justice of the Common Pleas), who has a speciall commis-
sion to try, and a very special inclination to hang them, shall have done
with them. If the Irish gentleman shall perform his undertaking to your
Lordship, your's to him shall in no point fail."1
This was a spy of Orrery's, who undertook to proceed to Con-
naught and fetch thence Colonel Dudley Costello's head, provided
he were furnished with a horse and travelling arms, and properly re-
warded.
Lord Dillon had been specially charged by Ormond to subdue
him and his band, but he defied all their attempts. And Orrery
offered this Irish gentleman to Lord Kingston, President of Con-
naught, who was then enjoying his Christmas at his seat of Mitchels-
town Castle, in the county of Tipperary, adjacent to Cork, to help in
the service. Lord Kingston said of this Munster spy of Orrery's, that
he looked like a man fitted for such designs, and if he had no more
than his aspect to judge by, he should not think the difference great
whether he brought in Costello's head, or Costello his.2
But the ordinary practice was to employ some of their own band.
Thus Lord Dillon employed two Tories, named M'Donough Dowd
and Taltagh Dowd, two brothers, to do service on a band of their
brother Tories in the Baronies of Costello and Gallen, in the County
of Mayo ; and in consideration of the service they had thus effected,
and while out on their campaign doing more, Lord Dillon's tenants
agreed to a levy of one shilling per quarter of inhabited land within
the Baronies, as they (the Dowds) were not in a condition otherwise
to subsist, or to prosecute them further.3
Lord Charlemont, in like manner, in October, 1668, by direction
from the Earl of Ossory, then Lord Deputy, and the Council, was di-
rected to send for "two Ulster Tories, namely, NeileOge O'Neile and
Con his brother, sonnes unto Tirlagh M 'Shane Oge O'Neile,"4 and
if, upon conference with them at Castle Caulfield (his residence in the
county of Tyrone), he should find that they might be willing, on pro-
mise of their own pardon, to do service against the Tories that were
abroad upon their keeping, the Board authorized him to give them
protection for such time as he thought necessary, not exceeding six
months.5
But they, either from inability or unwillingness, seem to have
failed in their undertaking, and to have forfeited their protection ; for
1 Carte Papers, vol. xlviii., p. 52e. O'Neile the younger.
2 Carte Papers, vol. xxxv. 5 Council Book. Domestic Corre-
3 Carte Papers, vol. xxxiv., p. 294s. spondence,1668, fol. 44, Record Tower,
4 This only means Terence, son of John Dublin Castle.
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ust eighteen months afterwards (May 17, 1670), Lord Berkeley
( Lord Lieutenant) and the Council are again in communication with
Lord Charlemont. Considering (they say) how the provinces of Ul-
ster and Connaught are now infested by Tories ; and that it appeared
from Captain Golborne's letter to Lord Charlemont that Con O'Neile
offered to <*ive security to clear both provinces of all the lories, and
cither to kill, take, or drive them out of the kingdom ; and as Lord
Charlemont had written thatCon and his brother Neile were the most
likely persons to perform what they promised, if they might have
their pardon, and remain still in the realm, the Lord Lieutenant and
Council authorized him to engage with them on those terms-
provided that, before the 1st of August following, they cleared
Ulster and Connaught of all the Tories.1
For some reason or other this negociation did not succeed — for
their father endeavoured, in his conference with Lord Charlemont, to
stipulate for the return from exile of them and his nephews, as appears
from this— that on the 1st June, 1670, the Lord Lieutenant and
Council apprise Lord Charlemont that "they had considered of the
proposal presented by him at the Board, from Captain Tirlagh
M'Shane Oge O'Neile, in behalf of his three sons, Neile O'Neile, Con
O'Neile, and Owen O'Neile, and his two nephews, Brian O'Cahan
and Shane O'Neile; and they conceived that the same Captain
Tirlagh M'Shane O'Neile, Oge O'Neile, and his friends and relations
might, if they pleased, without the presence or assistance of his
said sons and nephews (whom he desired should be recalled from
their alledged banishment), performe the services which he proposed.
They therefore authorize Lord Charlemont to say, that if he shall,
before the 1st August [1670], kill, take, or drive out the Tories,
then they will allow his sons and nephews to return — they giving
good securities for their peaceable conduct.2
At this time Lord Charlemont was Governor of Ulster, and it
was his duty to pay the head money offered by proclamation for
the heads of Tories hunted and slain. Thus, on 29th August, 1670,
the Lord Lieutenant and Council, by letters of concordatum, repay
twenty pounds paid by him to Captain James Stuart and his party,
on the certificate of Michael Cole, Esq., Sheriff of the county of
Fermanagh, that the said captain and his party, on the 4th of July
previous, at Coolaghtie, in the said county, killed and beheaded
one Owen M'Guire, a notorious rebel and Tory (whose name was
inserted in the proclamation of the Council Board of 1st June,
1670), and had brought his head to the Sheriff, which was put up
at Inniskillen, pursuant to the proclamation.3 On 25th November,
' Council Book. Domestic Corre- 'Records of the Vice-Treasurer's
**>» f0'- 75- office, now preserved in the Custom
' Ibid., fol. 75. House Buildings, Dublin.
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1670, he was repaid a like sum, paid to Bernard Butterfield, Esq.,
on the certificate of Alexander M'Causland, Esq., Sheriff of the
county of Tyrone, who, on the 18th of July previous, went forth
with a party in pursuit of several Tories, and at a place called Evise-
godan, in the said county, did there kill and behead one Patrick
O'Sonnaghan, a notorious rebel and Tory, included in the same
proclamation.1 Among many similar letters of concordatum, for
repayments of head money to Lord Charlemont, there is one in fa-
vour of Mulmurry O'Hossa, dated 25th November, 1670.
Mulmurry O'Hossa describes himself, in his petition to the Lord
Lieutenant and Council, as once a lieutenant in the regiment of
H. R. H. the Duke of York, in Flanders; and states that, in pursu-
ance of the late proclamation, and by the special encouragement of
William Archdall, Esq., one of His Majesty's Justices of the Peace
for the county of Fermanagh, he hath now of late pursued and slain
two notorious Tories, called Daniel O'Roarty and James O'Lough-
nane, who, by their frequent robberies, did very much infest and
molest His Majesty's good subjects in Fermanagh and the several
adjacent counties; "the heads of which said Tories your Petitioner
brought, in open court, before the Justices of the Peace, at a Ge-
neral Sessions held at Inniskillen, and the said heads, set up, are
still remaining in the said county town of Inniskillen. Since which
time the brother of the said Roarty is run out into the company of
Edmund M'Gillaspie, Hugh M'Nelagh, and other notorious Toryes
in the proclamation, and came several times to kill your Petitioner."
Unable to get any satisfaction for this service from Lord Char-
lemont, Governor of Ulster, "in regard the said Tories, killed by
your petitioner, were not inserted in the proclamation (though they
were of the company of Owen M'Guire and John Magragh, who
were proclaimed Tories, and the next day after pursued and killed
by Captain Hassett and Captain Stuart)," Mulmurry O'Hossa had
been obliged to make a journey purposely to this city of Dublin,
where he then attended at great expense, above his weak ability,
seeking the reward of twenty pounds per head. He supports his
claim on the certificates of Michael Cole, Esq., the Sheriff, and the
Justices. The latter runs thus: —
" Co. Fermanagh, \ At a General Sessions of the Peace, held at Inniskil-
len, for the said county of Fermanagh, the 5th of
to wit. } July, 1670.
" These are to certifie that one Mulmurry O'Hossa, Gent., att the said
Sessions, in open court, brought in before William Archdall, Abraham
Creightoune, Gerald Irvine, and John Creightoune, Esqs., four of His
Majesty's Justices of the Peace in the said county, the heads of Donel
O'Kortie, late of the county of Donegal, yeoman, and James O'Loughnane,
1 Records of the Vice-Treasurer's Office, Custom House Buildings, Dublin.
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late of the county of Tirone, yeoman; which said persons have been made
appear unto us, by oath of several persons, to be notorious rebels, and
re been guilty of several robberies and other misdemeanours, and were
killed by the aforesaid Mulmurry O'Hossa, Gent., at Stranadarrow, in the
county of Fermanagh aforesaid, the 5th July, 1670..
WILLIAM ARCHDALL.
ABRA. CREIGHTOUNE.
GER. IRVINE.
JOHN CREIGHTOUNE." l
From the Sheriff's certificate, it appears that these two Tories
were killed on the 5th of July ; so that Lieutenant Mulmurry
O'Hossa must have hastened to present their heads^ all dripping
with fresh gore, to the magistrates assembled at Sessions in Innis-
killen— a dainty dish, truly, to set before a Bench. It is satisfac-
fiictory to know that the Lord Lieutenant and Council recognized
Lieutenant Mulmurry O'Hossa's zeal and intelligence, and that he
was not disappointed of his forty pieces of silver (or gold).
Such engagements as these were evidently of little avail ; for
we find Lord Charlemont and others constantly employed by the
Lord Lieutenant and Council in treaties with Tories to abjure the
realm. On the 18th of March, 16fg, he was instructed to par-
ley with Edmund M'Gillespieand Redmond M'Knogher M'Quoid,
and to take security that they will depart the kingdom within three
months, never to return.2 On the 28th of the same month he was
authorized to make a similar arrangement with Rory M'Donnel,
Owen Duff M'Donnel, Fardorogh M'Donnel, Toole M'Donnel,
and Shane M'Gragh.
On July 1st (same year), Sir Edward Massie, at Abbey Leix,
one of the Privy Council, had license to treat with Thomas Butler,
Piers Fitzharris, Dominic Dogue, James Sinnot, and James
O'Hagan, for giving security to depart the kingdom, and to have
protection in the meantime.3
For these Tories were so desperate, and had so much of the love
and admiration of their countrymen, that it was well to be rid of
them any way. A congregation at Mass in the county of Kerry
rescued a Tory. The Duke of Ormond (March 23, 166f ) there-
upon wrote to Lord Ossory, President of Munster, that the priest
should be immediately arrested, and any persons of more than com-
mon quality that looked on.4 Six years afterwards, the inhabitants
of Macroom, in that part of the county of Cork which borders upon
Kerry, having seized, arrested, brought to trial, and convicted
some Tories that had stood upon their keeping, several of their con-
1 Records of the Vice- Treasurer's Record Tower, Dublin Castle.
Office, Custom House Buildings, Dublin. 3 Ibid, folio 79.
* C(ra?£]LB?0h' D°me8tic Correspon- « Carte Papers, Bodleian Library,
dence, 1668, folio 69, preserved in the vol. xlviii. p. 63.
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federates and relations within six days after their comrades were
hanged, out of their malice and revenge burned the town, so that
the inhabitants lost all their goods in the fire, to the value of about
£3000 ; and the four Protestant archbishops were directed to set
on foot a charitable subscription for the injured inhabitants of Ma-
croom.1
It was against his will, however, that the Duke of Ormond
entered into agreements with the Tories for abjuring the realm; for
to give them leave after all their robberies and depredations to quit
the kingdom was, he feared, to encourage the trade, and raise more
than should be sent away.
" For who " (he asks) " in the condition many of the Irish are would
not, by robbing and spoyling, gather a summe of money to transport him-
self beyond sea, to try to get a fortune of which he despairs in his own
country; especially not being restrained by any principles of conscience
or of kindness to those they destroy ; and perhaps being told by their spi-
ritual rnisleaders that the course they are in is little worse than spoyling
the Egyptians was in the Israelites? The course your Lordship has
taken [he concludes this letter, to Colonel Mark Trevor, Lord Dungannon,
Governor of Ulster] of setting distrust and enmity betwixt themselves is
certainly the best, and ought not only to be pursued but encouraged, by
giving such as perform their undertakings faithfully some reward beyond
pardon."2
Chief among the Tories of the counties of Down, Armagh, and
Tyrone, was Redmond O'Hanlon. His principal haunt was the
Fews Mountains, overhanging Newry. Thence his retreat was
easy to the neighbouring mountains of Mourne, on the north side
of the bay of Carlingford. For more than ten years he kept three
counties in subjection ; so that none dare travel without convoy, or
his pass. The other Tories were under him. One of them, Cormac
O'Murphy, weary to be under Redmond O'Hanlon, set up for him-
self, became a ringleader of a company of his own, and plundered
three Scotchmen, who were tributaries to Redmond O'Hanlon, it
being a custom for the country people in Ireland to pay the Tories
for a pass to go unmolested. These Scotchmen complained to Red-
mond O'Hanlon, who trepanned O'Murphy, under pretence he
wanted his aid to take a booty. When he appeared, he ordered his
men to disarm him, and send him to the Scotchmen, with a guard
of fourteen Tories, and a Mittimus from Redmond to the next magis-
trate. But the Scotchmen compounded the matter with Cormac
O'Murphy for £20, to be paid the week following.
Cormac, being thus set at liberty, got new arms, and sent a chal-
lenge to Redmond O'Hanlon, who refused to appear, but swore he
would be revenged on Cormac. Edmund Murphy, parish priest of
1 Council Book. Domestic Correspon- Dublin Castle,
dence, 1668, fol. 183, Record Tower, 2 Carte Papers, vol. xlix., last page.
58
Killew, titular Chanter of Armagh, living in the Fews, at the in-
stigation of Captain Butler, who lay at Dundalk, at the foot of the
mountains, with his company of foot (charged by the Duke of Or-
raond with the following of Redmond O'Hanlon) plotted with Cor-
raac O'Murphy to seize O'Hanlon. The first attempt was made
by occasion of Cormac O'Murphy 's surprising David Mulligan, of
Lecorry, in the county of Armagh, and bidding him stand and
deliver ; whereupon David Mulligan showed a pass from Redmond
O'Hanlon, stating that David Mulligan and his father-in-law had
often sheltered him when hard hunted by Sir Hans Hamilton. But
Cormac, to enrage Redmond O'Hanlon, and show his contempt of
him, refused to acknowledge his pass, and robbed David Mulligan,
saying that he would only restore him the goods on Redmond's restor-
ing him his arms. A meeting was appointedfor the purpose of mutual
restoration, at which Olianlon was to be seized. The priest was
to provide brandy and hot waters (not hot water), and Captain
Butler, soldiers ; but this failed by David Mulligan's seizing Patrick
Murphy, Cormac Murphy's " brother" and " kindred " under the
Tory Acts, who, by this means, got back his goods ; and thereupon
Redmond O'Hanlon, finding that his friend had recovered his goods,
refused to attend the meeting, and sent word to Cormac that he
would not return him his arms. Another plot between the priest
and Cormac O'Murphy for his capture was arranged on a similar
plan. Cormac on one occasion robbed a cousin of O'Hanlon's,who,
boasting that he had the protection of the chief rebels of the king-
dom, and particularly one of O'Hanlon's passes, engaged to take
some trader's goods under his charge to Dublin. Cormac was sure
that Redmond O'Hanlon and his men would resent this outrage
upon his authority, and would soon be after him. So he and the
priest arranged another ambush, and informed Captain Butler, who
had his men at hand ; but Redmond disappointed these and a thou-
sand other schemes.
For these are only the contrivances (detailed by himself ) of one
priest whom he had outraged by threatening that he would make
any one that went to listen to his preachings against him pay for
the first offence, one cow ; for the second, two cows (which he put
in execution against one of Edmund Murphy's parishioners); and
for the third, death.1
Yet this man was a scholar and a gentleman, which is the reason
Sir Francis Brewster assigns for his not being taken after commit-
ting so many robberies and murders as he debits him with.
His exploits appeared in the French Gazettes ; and by them he
1 The above extracts are taken from Murphy, Parish Priest, and Titular
Present State of Ireland, but more Chanter of Armagh, and one of the first
particularly of Ulster, represented to discoverers of the Irish Plot," Folio,
the People of England, by Edmund London, 1681.
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was called " Count O'Hanlon,"1 which meant only that he was of
gentle blood, and the son of an estated gentleman who had lost his
property through the Court of Claims. 2
But Redmond's career, at the end of the year 1680, was drawing
to a close.
In addition to the curious and voluminous details given by
Father Murphy (of which what is given above is only a small
fragment) we are accidentally in possession of the more dangerous
practices of a Protestant Bishop against poor Redmond.
The year 1680 was the height of the calamitous and dis-
graceful popular frenzy in England of the sham Popish Plot. It
became necessary, to support the drama performing in England, to
show that the Irish Papists were moving too, which could be easily
done as regarded theTories, who would no doubt have accepted not
merely French, but the devil's aid, to reinvest them with their be-
loved homes and lands. But it should be shown, for Shaftesbury's
purposes, that the Popish priests were engaged in the plan of a
French invasion of Ireland, and this must be kept in mind in
reading the following correspondence. The first letter comes from
Sir Hans Hamilton to Ormond, dated December 18th, 16S0.3
Sir Hans (probably a Presbyterian) did not doubt, in his hatred
of Prelacy, which he nearly couples with Popery, but that Henry
1 Carte's "Life of Ormond," vol. ii.,
p. 812.
2 Petition of Hugh O'Hanlon (pro-
bably elder brother of Redmond) to the
King:-
" SHEWETH — That your petitioner's
father died two years before the rebellion
beganin Ireland : That your petitioner at
ye time of his father's death was but three
months old, as can be sufficiently now
proved to your Matie upon the place :
That his soe innocent age was not suf-
ficient to protect him in his small estate
against the Usurping Power : That ye
estate which devolved unto him by the
decease of his father was granted unto
him by King James of ever Blessed
Memory, as a reward for many good
services done in ye warres against ye
Irish: That your petitioner did enter his
olayme as an innocent before the Com-
missioners, lately silting at Dublin, but
could not come to a hearing, ye Commis-
sioners being straightened in point of
tyme. Wherefore your petitioner doth,
in most humble manner, lay himself at
the feet of your Most Excellent Majestie,
and implores your Majestie's protection
of his innocence, by appointing him to be
incerted in the Bill now transmitted"
[A.D. 1662]. » Collection concerning the
Execution of the Acts of Settlements."
Folio BM p. 337, Dublin Castle.
3 " May it please your Grace. — About
afortnightago,oneOwenMurphy brought
mee an order from your Grace and the
Council, requiring all Officers, Civill and
Military, to bee aiding and assisting to
ye said Murphy in apprehending and send-
ing to Dublin all such persons as the said
Murphy should thinke fitt to apprehend
in order to the discovery of the Popish
plott in Ireland.
" Your Grace's most humble and
" obedient Sarvantt,
"HANS HAMILTON.
" P.S.— These letters were found in
the hands of Redmon O'Hanlon's mother
in Law, by one Mullen, whoe 1 employed
to prosecute the Toryes, and having ap-
prehended some ofRedmon's recovers in
whose hands they found goods robbed
from some travellers on the rode, the
said woman was in one of theire houses.
Seeing Mullen come in, shee went to hide
these letters. Hee believed it to bee
money, went to her, and took them fro
her. The letters and the recovers hee
brought to mee; butt not the woman.
And now your Grace sees that a small
sume of money given to the sonne in law
(for soe itt is probable to bee) will pre-
vaile with that BP: to procure pardon
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Jones, Bishop of Meath, for a sum paid by Redmond O'Hanlon to
Mr. Annesiey, of Clough [Clough-Maghen-catt] in the county of
Down, now Castlewellan, at the foot of the Mourne Mountains,
was ready to obtain his pardon.
The letters that caused Sir Hans Hamilton s indignation was
a correspondence of Mr. and Mrs. Annesiey (the latter Deborah
Jones, daughter of the Bishop) with Katherme O Hanlon, Ked-
mond's mother-in-law, under the directions and authority of the
Bishop. Her husband, Francis Annesiey, was son of bir * rancis,
first Viscount Valentia, ancestor of the present Earl Annesiey.
The first letter is one from the Bishop, dated Dublin, Nov. 2,
1680, and begins :— "Deare Son and Daughter Annesiey," and
informs them that a proposal (on paper) of Hanlon's he had received
from them, was read in the Privy Council that day; and that
his orders were to assure Hanlon of pardon on the terms
formerly proposed, of his declaring himself, and assuring the Go-
vernment of his reality, by first bringing in, or cutting off some of
the principal Tories that were proclaimed: he and his friends after-
wards performing what they further undertook, viz.: to free the
country of Tories.
The Bishop complains somewhat jealously of O'Hanlon for
dealing with the Bishop of Clogher when he had begun with
him, as appeared by the Primate's reading a similar paper be-
fore the Council, that O'Hanlon had sent to the Bishop of Clogher ;
but he excuses it as probably caused by O'Hanlon's letter to him,
dated so long before as 30th September, having only reached him
the day before he read it at the Council, and so remained un-
answered.1
for soe bloody murthercrs as these are may be this tarme, to which I referre
known to bee by one meanes or other." the consideration wher and how to bee
" Endorsed ordered with best advantage.
"Sr Hans Hamilton. "Hanlon's paper I received in your's,
Dat. 18) pec j_^ which was read in Councill this day. My
Rec. 20 £ orders are to assure him of pardon on
Read at the Board, 20 Dec. 1680. ye termes formerly proposed— his decla-
Lr»* enclosed from y* Bishop of reing himself, and assuring the Govern-
Meath." ment of his reality in first bringing in or
Carte Papers, vol. xxxix. p. 141. cutting off some of ye principall Toryes,
1 "Dublin, Nov. 2, 1680. such as are proclaimed or notoriously
'•DEARSONANDDACCSUTERANNKSLEY, known to be such. After which the par-
— I received your last and rejoice there- don shall be for him and his friends, they
by to find your welfares. My service to undertaking what they promised of free-
you was directed as from Dublin, being ing the country of Toryes. They speak
then at [Ro]bartstown, and yt day set- of a Petition to the Lord Lieutenant for
ting forth ; so as I could not write so that purpose, which I desire may be pre-
positively concerning things heere at pared and signed by them. All this
• time. Comeing hither I find it not con- must be carried on with secresy, other-
venient to take any measures alone, or wise they may not be in a condition to
thout the advice of one or both of you act against the Toryes, who are not yet
Mring here on y place, which I suppose suspecious of them. I observe that
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An interval of a full month, fatal apparently to poor Redmond
O'Hanlon, elapsed between the foregoing letter of the Bishop and
the next adressed by his daughter, Deborah Annesley, to "Mr.
Hanlon," probably the father-in-law of Kedmond. It is dated
December 7, 1680.1
Sheis extremely troubled that she cannot give Kedmond O'Hanlon
(" Mr. O'Hanlon" she calls him) no better account of what (in her
gentle heart) she was assured to prosper in. The Lord Lieutenant
was overruled by the Council, who would not hear of his coming
in ; but has put £200 on Redmond, and £100 on Loughlin O'Hanlon
("Loling" she writes it), so that what arguments could be used
by her father could do no good. "The proclamation, "she adds, "will
be out on Saturday ; but my father is finding out a way in England
for al those pore men of which you shall know more from Mr. An-
nesley. . . . And let them not take it eile (ill), for I could doe noe
more if it had bene for my owne liife." In a postscript this tender
creature adds, " There is nothing set on Edmond Ban [the fair]
and Hagan."
Now, her father was engaged at this moment in helping the Earl
of Shaftesbury to bring his tragedy of the sham Popish Plot, then
playing in London, to a successful conclusion ; and the Bishop and
Hanlon's paper which you last sent and
is before mentioned, was dated ye last
of September, which yett came not to
my hand till yesterday. The reason of
the delay I would understand, And ye
reason of my enquiry in that is I doubted
Hanlon's interpreting his having sent
that his paper so long since, and nothing
answered by me to his satisfaction, to
have been neglect in me. And that
therefore he had changed ye hand from
me to the Bishop of Clogher, (to appeare
for him concerning which there was a
like paper as that from you sent from him
to ye Bishop of Clogher), and yester-
day shewed to the Lord Lieutenant by ye
said Primate. In other things I referre
to the enclosed, and desiring God's bless-
ing on you and yours, rest
" Your very affectionate Father
"HENRY MlDENSIS."
Carte Papers. Vol. xxxix. p. 143.
1 " December ye 7th 1680.
"MR.HANLON, I am extremely troubled
y* I cannot give Mr. O'Hanlon noe better
account of what I was assured to pros-
per in.
-"My LI. L*. was overruled bytheCoun-
cell who would not heare of his coming
in, but has putt £200 on Redmon O'Han-
lon, and £100 on loling [Laughlin], so
that ye arguments could be use by my
father could doe noe good. The Pro-
clamation will be out a Saturday against
them; but my father is finding out a way
in England for al those pore men, of
which you shall know from Mr. An-
nesley: because Leters are opened, I can
say no more of that. But yl way will
without doubt secure them, and bring
them in, of which I desire you to sende
away emediately to Mr. Annesley [who]
will desire to heare from you Concern-
ing it ; and let them know y* noe menes
shal be left unsought to doe them good,
for my father will have them in. And
let them not take it eile, for I [could]
doe noe more if it had bene for my own
liife, I shal stay heare tel I heare from
you conserning what I wrot about them
to Mr. Annesley, and no ston shall be
left unturned to bring them in, which I
question not but we shal finde wil be
wel conserning them.
" I am Sir,
" Your assured friend and Servant
" DEB. ANNESLEY.
There is nothing sett
on Edmond Ban and
Hagan."
Carte Papers, vol. xxxix. p. 144.
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hisbrother, Sir Theophilus Jones (made Scoutmaster- General for
Ife in the Bishop s place at the Restoration), had sent over agents
to London, to keep them in correspondence with Shaftesbury and
whole lives these two brothers, sons of the
• vivacious" (or long-lived) Bishop of Killaloe, who died aged 104,
were deadly foes to the Irish. In May, 1652, Dr. Henry Jones,
then Bishop ofClogher, and Scoutmaster-General, appeared at
the Council of general and field officers of Ludlow s army, held
at Kilkenny, and made the officers protest (through a dread only
of the Lord, they trusted) against their General's too great aptness
to mercy (so they termed it), and ^paring those whom the Lord
was pursuing with His great severity.2
From Cromwell3 he obtained Lynch's Knock, the ancient
estate ofthe Lynches, at Summerhill, in the county of Meath (now the
noble demesne of the Lord Langford) as did Sir Theophilus the
estate of the Sarsfields at Lucan. At the Restoration, Gerald
Lynch sought to be restored. He had had two sons killed, fighting
for the King under Ormond, and a third followed the King's for-
tunes abroad, and there ended his days. He obtained His Majesty's
Letters ofthe 30th of March, 1662, to be restored; but the Bishop
obtained a proviso in the Act of Settlement confirming these lands
to him, notwithstanding (as was urged by Sir Nicholas Plunket for
Gerald Lynch) "the Bishop has a good bishopric, while the said for-
mer proprietor and the rest of his children not killed in your Ma-
jesty's service, are in a sadd condition." 4
The Bishop's purpose was to prove Archbishop Plunket's com-
plicity in a supposed French invasion. Informers (particularly a
degraded priest, the Edmund Murphy mentioned above, and
others), induced by rewards and hopes of favour, swore that the
> Part of Staftesbury's design was to Tower, Dublin Castle.
damage Ormond. Ormond's family were 3 Humble Petition of Dr. Henry Jones
all Roman Catholics. He knew his fide- to the Right Hon. the Lord Deputy
lity to the King and dynasty. And he and Council, praying that Lynch's Knock
saw how difficult and dangerous a posi- and Jordanstown, now in his possession,
tion Ormond would be placed in, suspect- may be passed to him by Patent, by
ed by the English public of Popish name of the Manor of Michael's Mount.
sympathies. [1657]. MS. in Library of Trinity College,
The Earl of Arran, his son, and Lord Dublin, F. 3. 18.
Deputy, accordingly seized and secretly * " Schedule of Provisos in the late
opened the Bishop's correspondence. Act and draft of the present Bill which
His w hole conduct is therefore exhibited relate to some not comprehended in your
in the Carte Collection. Majesty's Declaration, and which do ob-
1 Letter of the General and Field Offi- struct the performance ofthe ends there-
cers, &c. to the Speaker of the House of of." — Volumes relating to the Act of
Commons.— Books ofthe Lord Protec- Settlement. MS., Folio, Record Tower,
tor's Council of Ireland, ~t p. 69, Record Dublin Castle.
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Archbishop had made large levies of money from the priests of his
diocese to buy arms, and had surveyed the neighbouring harbours,
and had selected Carlingford (a port with no depth of water, and
where fishing boats could scarce find access), as the place of dis-
embarkation for 70,000 French soldiers. Whether the Bishop, in
his bigotry, believed in the truth of this monstrous tale or not,
Archbishop Plunket was arrested, 'and sent for trial to London, the
Bishop of Meath alleging that his influence (the influence of inno-
cence and worth) was such in Ireland, there could be no fair
trial.1
To conclude with this poor Archbishop, he could give no an-
swer except a denial and statement of the infamy of the witnesses,
and protested that he could fearlessly appeal to the Duke ofOrmond,
theEarlof Anglesesy, and others of the best and highest Protestants
in Ireland, if he were tried there ; or even if the Court would wait
for his witnesses who had already arrived at Chester. As for the
vast moneys collected, he had never got so much out of them as to
maintain a servant, as was attested before the Council in Ireland :
he never had but one. And the house he lived in was a little
thatched house, wherein was only one little room for a library, which
was but seven feet high. However, all was vain, and he underwent
the butchery allotted to treason, a victim for this sham Popish Plot,
and French invasion, and Utopian Irish army of 70,000 men, as he
called it himself, at Tyburn, in 1681.2
The Bishop of Meath, being persuaded in his own mind that
Redmond O'Hanlon must assuredly know everything about the
designed invasion, hoped to get him for a witness against Arch-
bishop Plunket, and to send him to London.
It is very possible that it was with the design of getting into
the confidence and good will of Redmond O'Hanlon that he first
1 2d Carte's "Life ofOrmond, "p. 5 13, "there are 150 boys, for the greater
sect. 99. part children of the Catholic nobility and
2 State Trials. gentry, and there are also about 40
The Archbishop was held in high re- children of the Protestant gentry. You
spect among the best of the Protestants may imagine [he adds] what envy it ex-
in Ireland : and it is a circumstance cu- cites in the Protestant Masters and Mi-
riously illustrative of this estimation, nisters to see Protestant children coming
that at a residence and school which he to the schools of the Society. . . Dublin,
had established for Father Stephen Rice 22nd November, 1672." "Memoirs of the
of the Society of Jesus in Drogheda Most Rev. Oliver Plunket, Archbishop
(then and long after the seat of both the of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland,
Protestant and Roman Catholic Pri- by the Rev. Patrick Moran, Vice- Rector
mates), out of 150 pupils there were 40 of the Irish College, Rome, p. 100, 8vo.
of them Protestants. " In the school," Dublin, James Duffy, 1861 — a work full of
writes the Archbishop to Father Oliva, interest, and containing original histori-
General of the Society of Jesus at Rome, cal documents of great value.
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employed his kind-hearted daughter to correspond with Redmond
about his obtaining his pardon ; for,
« no prayer, no moving art
E'er bent that fierce inexorable heart.
It therefore may be that he only amused his daughter by stories
theVoclaiming of Redmond (THanhm; and he may
planned it, as a means of driving him more certainly
r3 Annesley's letter was of the same date and tenor a,shis
wife's.' He was directed, he says, « from above to apprise Red-
mond O'Hanlon that £200 was set on his head, and that £1< 0 was
the price of the others.
" A pardon had certainly been obtained for you, he says, it
in so enormous a case it could have been done without violence to
justice. 1 can tell you (if you come over to me^ and possibly it
may be worth your while) where the shoe pinches."
He then plainly requires to know if O'Hanlon will be a dis-
coverer of the design for the French invasion here, and who m
Ireland are the principal abettors. In that case a pardon will be
obtained.* But O'Hanlon must have spurned the vile proposal;
i This Doctor Henry Jones it was
that inflamed the officers of the English
army under Ludlow to frenzy against
men who had nothing to say to the al-
leged crimes, even if true.
" Mr. Speaker, upon the l?th of April
last many of your servants came into
Kilkenny, and had a meeting with sun-
dry of your general and field officers.
.... The observance of our General's
aptness to mercy and to a composure
with the enemy, .... doth (through
dread of the Lord only, we trust) occa-
sion much remorce ... in most minds
here concerning some treaties which
are liable to be attended with sparing
whom the Lord is pursuing with His
great displeasure ; and whether our pa-
tient attending rather His further seve-
rity upon them be not most safe. And
whilst wee were in debate hereof, and of
dealing with those that yet continue in
rebellion, an abstract of some particular
murders wag produced by the Scout Mas-
ter-General (who had the original exa-
minations of them more at large (. . . .
And indeed, so deeply were all affected
with the barbarous wickedness of the
actors in these crtiel murthers and mas-
sacres . . . that we are much afraid
our behaviour towards this people may
never sufficiently avenge the same . . .
And lest some tender concessions might
be concluded through your unacquaint-
edness with these abominations, we
have caused this enclosed abstract to be
transcribed, and made fit for your use.
Kilkenny, May 5, 1652." ^_, p. 69,
" Books of the Council for the Affairs of
Ireland," Record Tower, Dublin Castle.
2 " Mr. O'Hanlon, 1 was directed from
above to give you this account of yl af-
fairs in rellation to your friends are in
a worse condition yh was expected.
There is £200 sett on ye head of one,
and £100 as ye price of ye other. A
pardon had certainly bin obtained for
yra, if in so enormous a case it could
have bin done with1 violence to justice.
I can tell you (if you come over to me,
and possibly it may be worth your while)
where y" shoe pinches. I have only
this to adde (for 'tis not convenient to
write my thoughts to you), and Ibegge
your speedy answer to it, that I may
returne it to my Lord Bishop of Meath.
who will acquaint ye Councill with your
resolution in two poynts : Ist Whether
Redmon O'Hanlon will be a discoverer
of ye designe for y* French invasion
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for during six months more he lived, with £200 upon his head,
unkilled, uncaught, amongst the rocks of Sleive Gullion, in the
recesses of the Moyry Pass, or amongst the broken hills around
Forkhill ; for when, instead of fearing or hating a man, the people
fear for him, he sees with many eyes, and hears with many ears.
Though great attempts were made (says Sir Francis Brewster),
and large rewards offered for bringing in his head, both in the Earl
of Essex's Lord Lieutenancy and the then present one, the army
being put to more trouble in attending and pursuing him and his
party than all the Tories in the kingdom since the general rebellion
of Ireland, it was all in vain. But the Duke of Ormond took at
last his own way, seeming quiet, and giving " the Count" no distur-
bance. And that there should be no taking air of his design, the
Duke drew a commission and instructions all with his own hand
for two gentlemen he employed. And these were so well pursued
by the gentlemen entrusted, that on Monday, the 25th of April,
1681, at two in the afternoon, Count Hanlon was shot through
the heart. " Thus fell this Irish Scanderbeg," concludes Sir
Francis Brewster's letter, "who, considering the circumstances
he lay under, and the short time he continued to act, did things
more to be admired than Scanderbeg himself."
Sir Francis doubted not but there would come abroad a narra-
tive of his life, and therefore added no more, only to tell his cor-
respondent that he had this relation from the gentleman's own
mouth that the Duke employed. He saw the commission all
written by the Duke's own hand, but he would not let him see the
private instructions he had, but assured him that all the army of
Ireland could not have done it, nor was any other way left but
that which the Duke took.
The narrative of Redmond O' Hanlon' s life expected by Sir
here, and who in Ireland are ye princi- in, and the inclination they ought to
pal abettors. If he doth y* he need not have to their owne interest, should pre-
doubt of countenance, and pardon, and vaile with ym above all other advice,
reward alsoe for himself and his 2 bro- how preferrable is a quiett life to that
thers. 2ndly, If he will be at ye charge whch you now lead; therefore, you should
of procuring and passing his owne and resolve to become honest men, to prove
his brothers with Neale O'Hagian's firme to ye king's interests, and never
pardon in England. If soe, my Lord desiste againe from their obedience to
Bishop of Meath will draw up ye Pe- ye king, if you can obtaine once more
tition for ym to send it to a sure and his gracious pardon, which I question
Honble Hand, yl will gett it don wth- not may yet be obtained, though new
out controule. I alsoe will improve difficulties are started,
my interest wth the Earle of Anglesey " I shall adde noe more, but yi
and other friends therefor their ad- „ j am y j ^ friend
vantage. This I doe, that I may know * p *A ANN|SSEY.
their condition here, and what is pro- t ~, , ~ _ icon
Dosed to he done in England for them Clough, Dec. 9, 1680.
posed to be done in England for them
by my assistance [ ]. " For Mrs. Ratherm U'J
if ye consideration of ye misery they are Carte Papers, vol. xxxix. p. 142
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Francis Brewster never appeared ; but his memory has been kept
"reen in the souls of the people of Ireland. In the neighbourhood
of his former haunts every cave is « Redmond O Hanlon s parlour,
« Redmond O'Hanlon's stable," or « Redmond O Hanlon s bed,
and his grave, without a stone to mark the spot, is better and
more certainly known than many a titled hero's, loaded with a
pompous monument, i But hitherto the actual slayer of Redmond
O'Hanlon has been unknown to fame.
This long concealed secret is, however, at length out. ^ In a list
of " Warrants of Concordatum signed by the Lord Lieutenant
and Council between 31st August, 1677, and 25th of March, 1682,"
» On the 2 1st of September, 1863,
leaving Rostrevor for Newry at an early
hour, I went from thence alone on foot
to spend a day in the Fews Mountains.
My principal object was to visit one
of those primaeval subterranean stone
chambers, like the celebrated cave at
Grange, near Drogheda, described in
Lewis's Topographical Dictionary as
lying in the townland of Augh-na-cloch-
MulTan (meaning, as I afterwards found,
The field of the Stone or tomb of Mul-
lan), in the parish of Killevy ; and
I purposed to return thence to Rostre-
vor by the ferry at Narrow Water, so
as to pass on my journey the ancient
ruins of Killevy Church, lying at the
foot of Slieve Gullion, on the eastern
side— a strangely large church and an-
cient graveyard for so wild and moun-
tainous a district. When I got near
Augh-na-cloch-Mullan, I was still ask-
ing the way, but found the place little
known. At length I came to a house,
and, knocking at the door, a hearty old
woman came out to me, and went for her
as hearty old husband, who was some-
what lame, I perceived, as he clam-
bered out of the potato garden, where
he had been digging some for supper.
He guessed the place I wanted to see,
though he did not know it by its Irish
name ; and no wonder ,• for I said it
broad, as near as I could to the way it
is written, while it ought to be sounded
like Anna-gle-raillion. "Oh! you want
Redmond O'Hanlon's Cave," and he
pointed to a field about half a mile off,
and in the middle of it some old black-
thorns, near some huge mossy granite
stones— thorns that so often mark in
Ireland ancient sites ; the reason being,
that they protect the remains ; for no
one would dare to stir old solitary
bushes : they are the haunts of *' good
people." He seemed surprised at the
interest I took in it, and doubted the
answers I gave him. But when I pulled
out a wax candle and matches I had
brought to light up the cave, he said,
with emphasis, " By dad, but I would
like to go with you : you are after some
of Redmond O'Hanlon's goold. Will
you promise me a share of what you
find ?" I promised to call in on him on
my way back, and walked off to Anna-
gle-million. But I found, to my re-
gret, that the huge upright stones that
had formed the cave underground to
the centre of what had once been a bar-
row or earth mound, had been first
made a quarry of by the masons when
Mr. Synnot's new house at Ballymoyer
was built, some thirty years ago ; and
since then this curious monument of
the earliest times has been utterly
ruined, and nearly effaced. I returned
a wiser man. My hosts had got brown
bread and sweet milk ready for me.
They had a mountain freshness of face
and heart, and seemed to live for each
other. Like Philemon and Baucis —
" Hymenee et 1'amour par des desirs
constants
Avoient uni leurs cceurs d£s leur plus
doux printemps.
Us surent cultiver sans se voir assistes
Leur enclos et leur champ par deux fois
vingt e*tes :
Eux seuls ils composoient toute leur re-
publique
Heureux de ne devoir a pas un domes-
tique
Le plaisir ou le gre des soins qu'ils se
rendoient."
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discovered since the foregoing was written, are the following
entries :l —
" 6th May, 1681. To Art O'Hanlcm, for killing the Torie Redmond
O'Hanlon, £100."
" 12th December, 1681. To John Mullin, &c., as reward for killing
Loughlin O'Hanlon, £50."
It thus appears that Redmond died by treachery —
" sold,
And conquered, not by steel, but gold."
Tanderagee, in the county of Armagh (or, more properly, " Ton-
regee," as the Irish call it), was the seat of " O'Hanlon" for genera-
tions ascending to times before the birth of Christ, as the Irish were
wont to boast of the places of habitation of many of their septs.
" Tonregee" means " with his back to the wind," and is descrip-
tive of the brow where stood Sir Oghie O'Hanlon's castle, and
where now stands the Duke of Manchester's.
In 1587 Sir Oghie O'Hanlon surrendered all his territory in
Upper and Lower Orier into the Queen's hands, and received it
back as of Her Majesty's gift, by Knight's service "inCapite,"
under condition to maintain upon the premises twelve foot soldiers,
called kerne, and eight horsemen, well armed and appointed, to
attend upon the Lord Deputy in all hostings and risings out for
forty days together ; and lastly, and chiefly, that none should
thenceforth challenge the style of u O'Hanlon" by the name of
Tanist, but that he should utterly abolish and extinguish the same ;
in other words, become an English Knight, a poor " Sir Oghie,"
instead of that name which " sounded fuller in the mouth," and
was more prized by the Irish — " O'Carroll," " O'Hanlon,"
" O'Neil," &c. — than the best Earldom ; English titles indeed being
found to weaken the Irish chiefs, and given for that purpose.
The estate was entailed by the Letters Patent (dated 1st Decem-
ber, 1587), on Sir Oghie's only legitimate son, Oghie oge O'Hanlon
(i. e. " Oghie the younger"), and in default of his issue male, on Sir
As we sat and talked, it was plain think anything of twenty miles." "How
that my old host thought I was some old are you?" said he. "In my 55th
Government officer, because of my know- year." " Bedad, then, you'll bo getting
ledge of the country, acquired from the ould and shtiff." He meant, that I
Ordnance Maps, and scarce believed should be taking no more long moun-
my denial, or that mere curiosity was tain walks. Happy, hospitable, virtuous
my motive. "Does the Government people! How strange their fate : —
employ you? Are you paid for it? f „ , ,, ., . , . ,
What do you make by it?" He won- Ro"nd the Wlde world m banishment
dered still more at the length of my „ to, rjam> ... . . „ ,, ,
walk, and to hear that I was a " counsel- Forced from their pleasing fields and
lor" from Dublin. " You'll sit still when natlve home-
you get home." " Oh!" said I, " I don't 1 Carte Papers, vol. lix., p 250.
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Oghie's " reputed sons," Terence, Shane, and Brien, and their issue
male in succession ; then upon Sir Oghie's brothers, " Patrick, Mo-
laghlin, Shane, and Felomie."1
The O'Hanlons loyally adhered to the English. They and
the Magennises were said to be the only friends of Queen Elizabeth
in Ulster.3 " O'Hanlon " claimed to be hereditary royal stan-
dard-bearer north of the Boyne. In 1595, in the war against Hugh
O'Neil, the royal standard was borne, in the march of the Deputy
Sir William Russell from Dundalk, the first day by O'Mulloy, and
the next by O'Hanlon.3 On the 1 7th of November, 1600, Sir Oghie
was slain at the pass of Carlingford, fighting on the English side
under the orders of Lord Mountjoy.
What was Redmond O'Hanlon's relationship to Sir Oghie does
not appear. But in 1634, Hugh O'Hanlon (who may have been the
eldest brother of Redmond) petitioned King Charles the Second to
be restored to his estate, by a proviso to be inserted in the Bill of
Explanation, inasmuch as the late Court of Claims had been too
straitened in time to decide his claim to " Innocence." His father,
he said, died, in 1639, when he was only three months old, so that
he was not two years old at the time of the Irish Rebellion ; yet
his so innocent age was not sufficient to protect him in his small
estate (being seven townlands granted to his father as a reward for
his loyalty against Tyrone), but they were taken from him by the
usurping powers.4 Vain were his petitions and his protests.
Near Tanderagee may be seen, side by side, two small unfenced
graveyards, called respectively the Catholic and Protestant (or, in
O'Hanlon's day, the Irish and the "Saxon" or English) graveyards.
For often, in Ireland, it is not as in some other lands, that those who
were divided in life —
" The grave unites ; where e'en the great find rest,"
but in death they still remain distinct. And any Irish peasant will
point out among the green mounds of the Irish graveyard — the
greenest of all— Redmond O'Hanlon's Grave.
1 Lodge's Abstracts of the " Records Curiosa Hibei nica," vol. i. p. 140.
of the Rolls," vol. i. p. 483. Ulster's ' Sir Richard Cox in " Hibernia An-
Office, Dublin Castle. glicana," p. 407.
" Brief declaration of the Govern- « Series of twelve volumes in folio
ment of Ireland, discovering the dis- MS. relating to the Acts of Settlement
contents of the Irishry." By Captain and Explanation. Vol. B. p. 335. Record
Thomas Lee, A. D. 1594. " Desiderata Tower, Dublin Castle.
(To le continued.)
PROCEEDINGS AND PAPERS.
QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING, held at the Society's Apartments,
William-street, Kilkenny, on Wednesday, April 1 7th (by ad-
journment from the 3rd), 1867.
The Rev. SAMUEL PENROSE in the Chair.
The following new Members were elected : —
Sir Denham Jephson Norreys, Bart., Mallow Castle : Colonel
Meadows Taylor, M. R. 1. A., Old Court, Harold's Cross, Dublin ;
W. H. S. Westropp, Esq., M.R.I. A., 2, Idrone- terrace, Blackrock,
Dublin; J. H. Jephson, Esq., 16, Adelaide-street, Kingstown;
Joseph O'Kelly, Esq., M.R.I. A., 51, Stephen's-green, Dublin ;
and George Henry Kinahan, Esq., Geological Survey of Ireland,
51, Stephen's-green, Dublin: proposed by George V. Du Noyer,
Esq.
The Right Hon. Richard More O'Farrell, Ballyna House, En-
field ; Denis Shine Lalor, Esq., J. P., Grenagh, Killarney ; and
Daniel O'Connell, Esq., J. P., Derrynane Abbey, county of Kerry :
proposed by John P. Prendergast, Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
The Rev. Benjamin W. Adams, D. D., M. R. I. A., Cloghran
Rectory, Drumcondra, county Dublin : proposed by the Rev.
James Graves.
Thomas Alexander ^Thompson, Esq., M. D., Carrickfergus :
proposed by Dr. Colles L. Anderson, Liverpool.
Richard Culley, Esq., 3 Monument-place, Liverpool ; John
Middleton, Esq., St. Francis Abbey, Kilkenny ; and Mr. Caleb
Payne, Wellington-place, Kilkenny : proposed by Mr. J. G. A.
Prim.
Mr. James O'Brien, Jenkinstown : proposed by Mr. John
Hogan.
The Auditors brought up their Report on the Treasurer's
Account for the year 1865, as follows: —
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CHARGE.
Iftfi? ^ 8' ^"
Jan. 1. To balance in Treasurer's hands, . . . . 129 14 7 J
Dec. 31 . Annual Subscriptions, including those to Illus-
tration Fund, ......... 238 1
Life Compositions, ........ 1510
One year's rent of Jerpoint Abbey, . . .
Sale of Woodcuts, ......... 550
Sale of " Journal" to Members, .... 1186
Donation from Daniel Mac Car thy, Esq.,
towards printing the Life and Letters of
Florence Mac Carthy, ....... 1 1 15 6
„ Gold Ring sold to the British Museum, . 400
£408 1 111
DISCHARGE.
1865. £ *' d'
Dec. 31. By postages of "Journal," ....... 20
„ „ circulars and general correspondence, 10 3 8
„ Cost of Illustrations for "Journal," . . . 35 15 0
„ „ of printing, &c., of "Journal'' for four
quarters, ending October, 1865, ... 78 4 1 1
,, General printing and stationery, .... 12 12 9
„ Commission to Dublin Collector, .... 1156
„ Sundry expenses, ......... 996
Carriage of parcels, ........ 0131
Purchase of back numbers of the " Jour-
nal," &c., ........... 970
Rent and caretaker, Jerpoint Abbey, . . 200
Rent and insurance of Museum, .... 14 12 0
Transcribing original documents, ... 4 15 0
Cash paid on account of repairs at Clonmac-
noise, ............ 11171
Balance in Treasurer's hands, ..... 196 7 8j
£408 1 11 J
We have examined the above Accounts with the Vouchers, and have
found them correct, and that there is a balance of £196 Is. 8jd. in the
hands of the Treasurer.
, 1867.
Mr. Robertson reported that he had found, on a recent inspec-
tion of the tower of the Franciscan Abbey, Kilkenny, that during
the past few months several new cracks and fissures had taken place,
the result of the last winter's severe frost, apparently, which he was
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apprehensive were of a character likely to endanger the stability of
that very light and graceful structure.
All the members present expressed great regret that any danger
should be considered to exist of the falling of this fine belfry tower,
and were most anxious that something might be done, if possible,
to prevent such a catastrophe ; and, on the suggestion of the Rev.
Mr. Graves, Mr. Robertson was requested to make another and
more careful inspection of the building, and to report to the Com-
mittee of the Society whether any and what steps might be taken,
such as would conduce to the preservation of the tower.
The following presentations were received, and thanks voted to
the donors: —
By the Publisher : " The Builder," Nos. 1241-1254, inclusive.
By the Publisher : " The Gentleman's Magazine," for January,
February, and March, 1867-
By the Very Rev. the Dean of Ossory, President of the So-
ciety: a stone in which a cup-shaped hollow had been formed
(similar to other specimens in the Museum, supposed to have served
as rude lamps), and which seemed to have undergone some kind of
vitrifying process. It was found in the cemetery of St. Canice's
Cathedral, in the place at which indications had previously been
discovered of an encaustic tile manufactory having been anciently
carried on.
By Mr. J. Middleton : a number of boars' tusks, which had been
dug up in making some improvements at his then residence, Suir
Villa, Newtown, near Waterford. They were found resting on
the rock, beneath three feet of yellow clay.
By the Rev. N. R. Brunskill : a very beautiful specimen of the
Cronabane halfpenny, of 1789, which had been gilt. Also a gilt
medal of the regency, during the insanity of George III., of the
same year.
By Mr. Grady, Stonyford : a copper counterfeit six shilling
Bank of Ireland Token, of the year 1804, of very admirable ex-
ecution.
By Mr. C. Faulkner, F. S. A. : rubbings of two decorative tiles
from St. ^atrick's Cathedral, Dublin. The originals were of a
dark colour from hard burning, indented, and had been highly
glazed. The patterns were similar to some of the old flooring tiles
of St. Canice's Cathedral.
By Mr. Kyran Molloy, Seven Churches, Clonmacnoise : a rub-
bing of a small altar stone, which the Rev. Dr. Todd, S. F.,
T. C. D., had discovered in the burying ground there during a
visit recently paid to the Seven Churches by that eminent archae-
ologist. The stone was inscribed with five crosses, as usual on
ancient altars.
Mr. Robertson exhibited a rare silver medal, of very beautiful
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execution, lent to him for the purpose by Joseph Greene, Esq.,
Lakeview, who had found it amongst the effects of the late Sir J.
Newport. It was commemorative of one of the French refugees in
England, of the period of the Commonwealth.
Mr. Robert Day, Jun., Cork, sent a model of a bronze leaf-
shaped sword, in his possession, nearly two feet long, the noticeable
feature of which was its possessing a handle which Professor Owen
pronounced to be the bone of a mammal, probably a cetacian.
Mr. Day asked for information as to the size which it Anight be
convenient to have it photographed, for an illustration in the So-
ciety's " Journal," of which he wished to bear the expense himself
in part.
The Secretary undertook to communicate with Mr. Day on the
subject.
In reply to a letter of the Rev. Mr. Graves, respecting the cap-
stone of the conical top of Ardmore Round Tower, county of Wa-
terford, blown off in the storm which took place at the end of Fe-
bruary last, Mr. R. R. Brash, Architect, Cork, wrote as follows : —
" The Ardmore cap-stone presents nothing to photograph. The co-
nical top of the tower was finished by two stones, or what was probably
one stone originally, but which had opened in a vertical joint by the ac-
tion of the weather. The stone is about 16 inches high ; and I don't think
it likely the old builders would have made the finish with an upright
joint. The surface is very much weather-worn and disintegrated, but has
no sign of carving or tool marks whatever ; there is a sort of welt, or
slightly raised ridge on one of the stones, but this is caused by the action
of the weather, leaving a hard part of the stone prominent ; the top is
rounded and worn, but there is no appearance of a mortice or any prepa-
ration for holding a cross (such as is said to have surmounted the cap) or
any other finish; and there could have been none, as the stone now de-
scribed was the sole finish the tower had. The rest of the cap of the tower
is in a very shaky state. I hope Mr. Odell, the proprietor, will take
some steps to preserve it from further destruction."
Mr. Bracken, County Inspector, said he was quite sure, from
Mr. Odell's well-known taste and public spirit, that gentleman
would take the utmost care of the tower.
Mr. Robertson exhibited a rare Saxon silver coin, in beautiful
preservation, which had been recently dug up by a poor man who
had brought it to the Rev. Vernon R. Drapes, Rector of Durrow,
wishing that its value might be ascertained ; and Mr. Drapes was
anxious to have it sold to the best advantage, for the finder's benefit.
He (Mr. Robertson) was at once able to identify it as a rare coin of
Offa, King of Mercia, who flourished A.D. 747. On the obverse
was " •%• OFFA REX ;" on the reverse, the name of " •%• IBBA."
Mr. Graves made some remarks on the interest attaching to the
discovery of Saxon coins in Ireland.
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The Rev. V. R. Drapes, to whom Mr. Robertson had remitted
the sum he had obtained for this rare coin, on behalf of the finder,
gave the following account of its discovery : —
" The coin of Offa was found by a man named John Curran, in a field,
of which he is tenant, in the Queen's County, about five miles from Rath-
downey. The field is six acres in extent, and is surrounded by a fence
nearly circular. In the middle of the field are the ruins of a church
standing in a graveyard. The graveyard was surrounded by a wall, of
which the ruins were removed about twenty-seven years ago. The name
of the townland is Bawnaughragh ; outside the limits of the graveyard
there have been, and still are found throughout the field continually,
human bones, and the tradition in that locality is, that a battle had been
fought on that field. The coin was turned up when a portion of the circu-
lar fence was being levelled. The happy finder of the coin could scarcely
believe the pound notes to be real, when I handed him the sum you ob-
tained for it, viz., £2 125. 6<Z."
The following papers were submitted to the Members: —
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THOMAS DINELEY,
ESQUIRE, GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS VISIT TO
IRELAND IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II.
COMMUNICATED BY EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ., M. A., WITH
NOTES BY THE HON. ROBERT O'BRIEN, AND THE REV. JAMES
GRAVES.
(^Continued from Vol. V., New Series, p. 446.)
GENTLEMENS Seats, Castles, and Places near this Town, are these
following, viz., within a quarter of [a] mile.
That Castle belonging to Henry Ivers,1 Esq., well scituate and
capable of very considerable improvement, a draught whereof I
took on the other side this leafe. It is five miles and three quarters
distant from Limerick.
i Henry Ivers, Gent., appears in Dr. was appointed agent to Colonel Daniel
Petty's Census, 1659, as a " Titulado" O'Brien, 3rd Viscount Clare, from whom
at Ballymolony, in the parish of Killo- he obtained leases of a considerable ex-
kennedy. tent of land.
On 21st June, 30°Chas.IL, heobtained He was married to the daughter of
a patent of Ballyluddane East, adjoining Captain Stephens, of Ballysheen, in the
Six Mile Bridge, with power to hold a county Clare, and was appointed Justice
Saturday market, and two fairs yearly of the Peace for that county in 1669,
on part of the land called Bally rella, and High Sheriff in 1673. He was suc-
alias Mount Ivers. ceeded by his son John, who was elected
By this patent, and others bearing Member of Parliament for the county
date 17th June, 19° Chas. II., and 27th in 1715.
November, 30° Chas. II., he was granted Although the great bulk of the estate
altogether 5773 acres, statute measure has passed away from the family, yet
profitable, which carried a larger ex- his descendant, Robert Ivers, Esq., still
tent of unprofitable acres. In 1668 he resides at Mount Ivers.— O'B.
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The gentleman, owner hereof, came over (a young man, clerk to
one Mr. Fowles,3 a Barrister), since the King's Restoration, and
hath in this time by his Industry, acquired one Thousand pounds a
veer The first and chiefest of his rise was occasioned by being
concerned in the Revenue as Clerk to the King's Commissioners for
settling the Quit Rents, and afterwards became their Deputy re-
ceiver, is now in Commission one of his Maties Justices of the Peace,
not worth less than sixteen hundred pounds a year.
A mile distant from Six mile Bridg,3 on the other side the
river from hence, is an Estate lately purchased from Mr. Tiege
O'Brien,4 by a very worthy Gentleman, Mr. Hugh Percivall,6 who
beareth for Coat Armor this.
[Here in the MS. is a drawing of the shield described.]
Sable, a Horse passant Argent, Spanceled on both leggs of
the neerer side Gules, by the name of Percivall. Yet the vulgar
and most usuall way of spanceling, not onely of Horses, but black
Cattle, viz., Cows, &c., in this Countrey, is by joining the1 fore
» The lands of Tarbert, county Kerry,
were, in 1666, possessed by Cornet John
Cooper, of Bunratty, a Cromwellian
officer, to whom the mother of Sir
Donat O'Brien, of Dromoland, was
married, by which means the estates
were rescued at the general confisca-
tion. Thomas Fowle, of Dublin, ob-
tained a judgment for £1800 principal,
against Cooper, on which execution by
elegit was issued to the Sheriff of Kerry :
upon an inquisition held at Carrigfoyle,
a moiety of the lands of Tarbert were
seized by the Sheriff for said Thomas
Fowle.
Afterwards Laurence Steele, as exe-
cutor for Fowle, let the said moiety to
Henry Ivors at £100 per annum, to be
paid at Strongbow's tomb O'B.
3 This town is situated on both sides
of the O'Gearna river, at a distance of
six Irish miles from Limerick, by the old
road across the mountain.
Here was formerly Castle Droichel,
built by Murrogh Mac Turlogh O'Brien,
and the west side of the river is in-
cluded in the Earl of Thomond's patent
of 1620.
The Earls of Thomond were anxious
to encourage Protestant settlers on their
estates, and several of the Earl's tenants,
and of the new patentees, had houses in
this town.
The rents paid in 1675 for houses and
plots of ground bear a very high pro-
portion compared to the value of farms.
£10 a year for a houso and shop, with a
covenant to rebuild, and £52 a year for
a malt-house, represent the rents paid
for considerable extents of land, even in
the vicinity of Six Mile Bridge.— O'B.
4 Teige O'Brien, in 1656, was, jointly
with Giles Vandeleur, tenant to the Earl
of Thomond for the six plowlands of
Moihill, near Six Mile Bridge, at £70 a
year rent. Giles Vandeleur alone ob-
tained a renewal of this lease in 1675.
Teige O'Brien had also obtained a
patent of some land near Tulla ; but,
having acted as lieutenant in Lord
Clare's infantry in 1688, he was at-
tainted, and his estate forfeited.— O'B.
6 On 25th June, 1668, Lord Clare exe-
cuted a mortgage on his estate in the
barony of Moyarta, &c., in county of
Clare, to Dyonisia Yeamans for £1742,
which was assigned to Hugh Persi-
vale. In 1674, Lord Clare granted a lease
to Hugh Percival, of Kinsale, in the
county of Cork, of certain lands in the
barony of Moyarta, further to secure
the said mortgage. After the forfeiture
of Lord Clare's estates, a claim was
lodged at Chichester House for the
amount of the mortgage by James Clark,
on behalf of Dixy Percival, a minor, son
of Hugh.
The family of Perceval were origi-
nally from France, and came to England
at the time of the Norman Conquest.
The crest borne by one branch of the
family was the spancelled horse, being
a canting play on the French name for
a horse. — O'B.
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leggs together by Gads or Withs twisted, which, see page [ ].
And by this ye horse cannot move or gain ever so little ground
but by a galloping step, jump, or stretch. Now, an Horse by his
MOUNT IYER'S CASTLED
Belonging to Henry Ivers, Esq.
A. Rosmongher.? B. Buratty. C. Cappar Castle.8 D. Six-mile bridg Town.
E. The Six-mile bridg River. F. The wood of the Oyl Mills.9
nature is rather won to this by tractable usage than forced, for
such is the horses brisk and sprightly nature, and of all other noble
6 Mount Ivers Castle. — Section 234 of
the Act of Explanation, 17 & 18° Chas.
II., cap. 2, provides that new names
more suitable to the English tongue
should be inserted in the letters patent,
with an alias.
The name of Ballyluddane East was
then changed into Mount Ivers, and has
so continued.
There are still visible some founda-
tions of the old castle ; but most of the
stones were worked into the modern
mansion-house. — O'B.
7 Rosmanagher Castle is said to have
been built by John M'Mahon-M'Donagh
M'Namara, but was returned in 1570
as one of the castles of the Earl of
Thomond.
Rossemoneherr, with two quarters of
land, were included in the patent of 19°
James I. to Donough, Earl of Thomond.
When Bunratty was, in 1646, besieged
by the confederate army, a part of which
was encamped at Six Mile Bridge, Ros-
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spirited animals, that to bring them to conformity must be rather
by gentell handling than severity, according to the true saying of
Seneca, Generosus animus facilius ducitur quam trahitur. For it is
with the irrational animals as with the rational, who are rather
drawn by the Ears than by the Cloak. That is, they are sooner
won by perswasion, than forced by compulsion, wch being taken in
this sence, the imposition of this artificial note of restraint doth
no way derogate from ye worth of the bearer. It is observed of
the Horse (as also of other whole footed beasts), that their leggs
are at the first as long as ever the will be, and therefore yong
foales scratch their Ears with their hinder foot, which after they
cannot do, because their legs do grow onely in bigness but not in
length. Plin. lib. ii., cap. 48. The Horse is a, beast naturally
stubborn, fierce, HAUTY, proud, and insolent; and of all beasts
there is none that vaunteth more after Victory, or dejected if over-
come ; none more prone in battell or desirous of reveng.
Three miles from Six-mile Bridge, 9 from Limerick, and 7 from
Ennis, neer the road between Limerick and Galloway, wch city
stands 27 miles off, is
Ballicar Castle,9 belonging to John Colpoys, Esqr., whose pros-
managher Castle was occupied by a
party from Bunratty under Captain
Hunt ; but they were compelled to sur
render to the Confederates on the 13th
of May.
Abraham Dester, on the 22nd of De-
cember, 1675, obtained a lease from the
Earl of Thomond of the castle, and two
plowlands, at £103 10s. rent. Thislease
contained a covenant that the lessee
should at general hostings send a Pro-
testant horseman, with a good horse,
sword, and case of pistols, provided for
a month to attend the Earl. This lease
was afterwards converted into a fee
farm, and the lands still belong to the
same family, who have assumed the
name of D'Esterre.
The tower of the castle still remains
in a tolerably perfect state.— O'B.
8 Canpagh Castle was said to have been
built by Convca M'Cumara-M'Shane-
M'Namara, and was returned in 1570
as belonging to Shane M'Namara.
Cappagh, with four plowlands, was
passed in the Earl of Thomond' s patent
of 1620.
During the siege of Bunratty, Colonel
M'Adam placed some musketeers there,
under Sergeant Morgan, who were cap-
tured by the confederates on the 13th
of May.
The foundations only of this castle
now appear, the stones having been
removed for building a house near it.
Here was the manor mill of Bunratty,
to which all the tenants on that manor of
the Earl of Thomond were bound to send
their corn to be ground. It was a wind-
mill, situated on a high point of land.
Some old millstones still mark the site. —
O'B.
9 The Wood of the Oyl Mills The
site of the Oil Mills is near the junction
of the fresh water with the tidal part of
the river. No part of the ancient wood
now remains. — O'B.
1 Ballycar Castle was said to have
been built by Connor M'Hugh-M'Logh-
lin-M'Namara, but does not appear
among the list of castles in 1570.
The Castle, and two plowlands, of
Ballycarhy were passed in the Earl of
Thomond s patent of 1620.
In 1655, a lease of Ballycar Castle,
&c., " as heretofore held by George Col-
poys, deceased," was made by the Earl
of Thomond to John Colpoys, with the
condition to supply an armed Protes-
tant horseman, provided for a month.
This lease was converted in 1714 into a
fee farm, and has now passed to heirs
female.
The castle has disappeared, and the
dwelling-house, not long since occupied
by John Colpoys, a true-hearted gentle-
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pect I have sketcht off on the other side ; this is part of the Estate
of ye Rl Honble Henry Earle of Thomond, in the Barony of Bun-
ratty, in the Parish of Tomenlagh.
InBoggs here, as in most parts of Ireland, in digging for Turf,
are found large firr Trees, and particularly in the Bishoprick of
Cloyne, in the county of Corke, and Province of Munster ; in the
Boggs are found such quantities of Firr timber trees that they
make benches, tables, wainscoat, and floor Roomes therewith ;
they use it also so much for fewell that the town smells of Tur-
pentine.
Ballicarr Lough aboundes in Eeles and Trouts, especially of a
stupendious largenes for such as Trouts, of 30 and 24 inches in
length, which very commenly have bin tooke here.
The South-East Prospect of Ballicar Castle.
D. Rathfoelane.io
It is discoursed also, and by very credible persons, that at
Muyree Castle, in this county of Clare, towards Gralloway side, was
taken a prodigious Pike with two Ducks in its Gorge or Belly, one
man, an upright and popular magistrate,
and thorough sportsman, is now a roof-
less ruin. — O'B.
10 Rathfolan Castle, alleged to have been
built by Loghlin M'Sheeda-M'Teige-
M'Namara, was returned in 1570 as the
property of Donough O'Brien, of Dro-
moland, third son of the first Earl of
Thomond and Baron Inchiquin.
It afterwards passed to a family of
the M'Namaras, and in 1641 was in the*
possession of John M'Namara, who had
other estates in the same barony. Dur-
ing the Protectorate of Cromwell he
was ejected, and Henry Colpoys was
located in the castle.
At the Restoration it was granted to
Daniel M'Namara, one of the eight of
that name who received grants of land
out of the eighty- three M'Namaras who
had been proprietors in that barony of
Bunratty in 1641.
It was again forfeited, in 1688, and
sold to Sir Donat O'Brien, of Dromo-
land.
The last remaining wall of the castle
fell about thirty years ago ; but a heap
of ruins marks the site — O'B.
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whereof was so fresh, that took out and roasted prov'd a very good
n that upon the riseing of the water of a lough, and over-
flowing some meadows, 3 Pikes were shott at once graze.ng.
That at such times they do eat grass, is very certain, and ob-
served by severall.
11 Clar-more probably gave its name to under the rule of the Earls of Thomond,
the county of Clare in 1670, it having
previous to that been called Thomond,
the Irish laws having continued in force
and Clare castle was one of the demesne
castles of the Chief of Thomond for the
time being.
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The larger the Pike the coarser the food, the smaller being the
best, contrary to the nature of Eeles, which improve their goodness
by their bulk and age.
[Here follows statement about the fish called Sargus, which is
unfit to print.]
CASTLE-MAINE in Connolough, Anno 1600, in the Reigne of
Queen Elizabeth, being inhabited by a Rebell, and whose ruines
are seen at this day, was taken by Sr Francis Berkley, and in it
store of booty. This is not farr off from the Castle of Askeyton,
which I have toucht off following. Castlemain is an Earldome.
ASKEATON CASTLE.12
[Here is given by Dineley a view of Askeaton Castle fromPacata
Hibernia, p. 52.]
Anno 1600, June 5. This Castle was gained from the Rebells
by 500 men under the Comand of Sr Francis Berkley, which forces
of Queen Elizabth were sent from Limerick thither by water.
Aug. 23, the same yeer. The. Re. Honble. the Earle of Tho-
mond then, was intreated by the Lord president of Munster, Carew,
to Comand this Garrison of Askeiton, both to check such Rebells
as should lurk in the woods, and to preserve the goods of those
that became honest subjects of the Queen, for it was the custome
of the Irish then, that had they lost but a few cattle, they would
When Donnell More O'Brien, on the Connaught. The year following Sir
death of his brother, the second Earl of Edward Fy tton had his revenge, and
Thomond, in 1558, being Tanist, and fol- deprived the Earl of the Castle of Clare ;
lowing the ancient custom of the coun- but it was subsequently restored to him,
try, was inaugurated Prince of Thomond, and has remained ever since a part of
he took possession of Clare Castle ; but the property, though leased in fee farm.
Connor, the third Earl, who claimed, ac- It is now used as a military barrack,
cording to the English law of primo- and the round and high square tower
geniture, to succeed his father, invoked joining it, though now reduced to the
the aid of the Queen, and the Earl of same level, are in good preservation. —
Sussex was sent into Clare ; and, having O'B.
evicted Donnell More, he restored Clare 12 The ancient name of Askeaton was
Castle and Bunratty to the Earl. Imkesty, and appears to have been
In 1570, when Sir Edward Fytton vested in Lord Thomas de Clare, who
endeavoured to introduce the English married Juliana, daughter of Maurice
laws into the newly-formed county of Fitz Gerald, third Baron Offaley, in
Clare, arid proclaimed a Sessions at 1276; Lord Offaley, from whom the
Ennis for the purpose, the Earl of Tho- Earls of Desmond possessed the greater
mond, then at Clare Castle, unwilling to part of the county of Limerick, 1322,
submit to the laws which deprived him 15° Edw. II. The king assigned to Ro-
of his rule as chieftain, not only made bert de Well and Matilda his wife, one
prisoners of Fytton's messengerSj but of the heirs of Thomas de Clare (Junr.,
drove him out of the county, the newly- killed at Dysert O'Dea, 1317), the castle
appointed Sheriff acting as his guide manor, and barony of Imkisty, with its
through the difficult passes leading into appurtenances, at £14 1«. \\d. rent.
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have reckon'd it a sufficient cause for Rebellion against their liege
Princess whom they grally [generally] hated.
CAHIR CASTLE, in the Province of Mounster, and which 1 have
touched off on the other side, was taken for Q. Eliz. of blessed me-
mory by 11. Devereux, E. of Essex, then Lrd Deputy, Anno Dm
1599, being his onely remarkeable action13 towards subdueing of the
Kebells oOIounster, wch Province was then look't upon to be the
Key of the Kingdome for its cities and Towns wall'd, which are
more numerous than in ye rest of Ireland, besides the Fertility
thereof as reckon'd the Garden of this Isle, and the convenient
Harbour lying open to Spain and France. When ye Earle of Essex
took Cahir Castle he received the Lord of Cahir, [ ] the Lord
Koche, and some others into the Protection of the Queen, who
upon turning of his back for England both openly and secretly be-
came Rebells again. The 8th of May, 1600, it was kept by Sr John
Dowdtill under the President Carew, with a ward out of Sr George
Blounts souldiers; upon ye 23d of the same month it was surprized
by James Galdie ats Butler, brother to the Lord of Cahir.
James Galdie took it after this manner with threescore men :
coming undiscovered to the Wall of the Bawne of Cahir Castle
with Masons and Pioneers, broke holes in the weakest part of the
Wall, gott in and entered the Hall before they were perceived,
yett some resistance was made by Thomas Quayle, a serjeant, who
was wounded. Three of the Castle guard were slayne, and the
rest render'd their arms upon promise of life onely, and were sent
to Clonmell in yc County Palatine of Tipperary, where they were
imprisoned untill the President had time to trye the by a Court
Marshall.
In this Castle, when taken [were] great Ordnance, a Cannon,
and Culverin, left there by the Earle of Essex, when he took it,
which was Anno Dom. 1599.
CAHIU, OR CAHKR CASTLE.
[Here is given by Dineley a view of Caher Castle from Pacata
Hibernia, p. 42.]
Five miles from Six-mile bridge, 11 from Limerick, 8 from
Ennis ; and 3 miles from Rathlahine Castle, is Ballyclogh Castle,
" This is true. Cahir Castle is still in of Portlaw, who takes admirable care
admirable preservation, and complete of this ancient fortress. It is to be
in all its parts — enciente, bastions, remarked that the banqueting hall is
towers, keep, outer and inner ballium, a restoration by the late Lord Glengall,
outer and inner gateways, portcullis- and that the date he has assigned, on
groove, &c. It is a structure well worthy a tablet, for the erection of the castle,
of the study of the military antiquary. is too early by at least three hundred
The present owner is Mr. Malcomson years.— J. G.
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held for 3 lives by Tho. Cullen,14 Esqr, Justice of the Peace, of Sr.
Henry Ingoldsby. This Castle is adorned with some moderne
building according to the sketch on the other side this leafe.
Besides this are 3 Castles more in this Kingdome, wch go by
the name of Ballyclogh, viz*, two in the County of Limerick, one
^Ballynacloghy Castle,now Stone Hall,
is said to have been built by Donogh-
M'Connor-M'Murtogh-Clanchy, and in
1570 was returned as the property of
Teige M'Glanshy.
The M'Clanchys, or Clanchys, were
the hereditary Brehons, judges, or law-
yers of Thomond, and many documents
still exist attested by members of that
family.
Before 1641, Ballyclough passed into
the hands of Nicholas Fanning, whose
estates were forfeited, and Thomas Cul-
len, Esq., installed there as " Titulado"
in 1656, having been appointed justice
of the peace under Cromwell.
Captain Thomas Cullen was one of a
Civil Survey Jury at an Inquisition held
in Clare on 2nd March, 1635.
Thomas Cullen, on 1st May, 30° Char-
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belonging to Lieut'. Col. Eaton another to Quartermaster Whit-
roe, & a 3d to Mr. Pordam, m the County of Cork.
RATHLAHINE CASTLE.IS — An ancient Castle built by John
Mac Namarra, Esqr., it is founded upon and among Rocks. It be-
les II., obtained a patent of the lands of
Ballyline more; and, in 1687, he and his
wife settled their property by deed upon
Bridget Crosby, daughter of Sir Thomas
Crosby, on her marriage with Philip
Morgall.
After the Restoration, Ballyclough,
with a large extent of property in Clare,
was granted to Sir Henry Ingoldsby,
Bart. ; and Stone Hall having been ac-
quired by Sir Donat O'Brien, he set-
tled it on his sons by his second mar-
riage, with large estates. This family
selected Stone Hall as their residence,
till they removed to Blatherwyche Park,
Northamptonshire. The castle no lon-
ger exists, and the dwelling-house is in
ruins. — O'B.
is Rathlaheen Castle is stated to have
been built by Teige M'Convea-M'Macon-
M'Namara; but, in 1570, was returned
as one of the castles of the Earl of Tho-
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longed since to Sr. William King, Governor of Limerick, and is
now in the Hands of Giles Vanderlure,16 Esqr., who hath built unto
it the fairest stable of the Countye.
Twelve Miles from Rallahine, neer Killaloo, worthy the sight
of the curious, is an Island called
ENNISH CALTRA.17 — This is two small miles about, in the Shan-
non River, in which are seen the remaines of seven Churches called
the 7 Churches of Asia. Here, once a yeer, the superstitious Irish
go to do pennance, and are enjoined to walk round barefooted 7
times, and they who fear hurting their feet, hire others to do it ;
here is a great concourse of both sexes. This Island, by some, is
called Insula Sanctorum, a name which hath bin applicable to All
Ireland.
ISLANDS, Parcel of Lands belonging to the R*. Honble Henry
Earle of Thomond,18 touched off from Paradise hill.
mond. This castle was the property of
John M'Namara in 1641, who had other
estates in the barony of Bunratty, which
were all forfeited. It was granted to
Sir Henry Ingoldsby on 27th July, 18°
Chas. II., not Sir William King, from
whom it passed to Giles Vandeleur, and
his heirs. The castle is still tolerably
perfect. Sir William King was not pa-
tentee of any land in the barony of
Bunratty.— O'B.
16 Giles Vaudeleur's name appears on
the back of a deed registered in the Peace
Office, Limerick, during Cromwell's
time, and he obtained a lease from the
Earl of Thomond of the six plowlands of
Moihill, near Six Mile Bridge, in which
town he had a house, but in the Petty
Census of 1656, he appears as " Titu-
lado" at Moihill.
Giles Vandeleur was one of the Com-
missioners for applotting quit rents, and
was High Sheriff for the county in 1665.
He likewise obtained a lease from the
Earl of Thomond of lands in the barony
of Moyarta, and his second son John
was Rector of Kilrush, and purchased
the estates, now enjoyed by his descend-
ant, Colonel Crofton Moore Vandeleur,
M.P.
The senior branch of this family were
settled at Ralahine, which has passed
to heirs female.
Their grandfather, Mr. John Vande-
leur, having adopted the principles of
Socialism promulgated by Robert Owen,
placed some labourers in his extensive
offices, agreeing to divide all profits in
certain proportions with them. One of
the forms to which their industry was
applied was the removal of the surface
rocks, the maiden earth proving very
favourable for the cultivation of the
potato. His system soon broke down,
the labourers preferring fixed wages. —
O'B.
17 Inis Cealtra Island is situate in Sca-
riff Bay, on Lough Derg, and soon after
the introduction of Christianity was se-
lected for an ecclesiastical settlement.
In 653, a monastery and church were
erected there by St. Caimin, from which
the church was called Temple Caimin,
and his festival was observed on the 24th
of March. Cosgrach, surnamed Tuoa-
ghan (the meagre), died here in 898,
having occupied the Round Tower for
the purpose of carrying out his peniten-
tial austerities, from whence it has been
named the anchorite's tower.
This island was plundered at different
times by the Danes, but was restored by
Brian Boiromhe.
Like most of the chief Church Settle-
lements of the Celtic Church in Ireland
the abbots are sometimes called bishops ;
and, in 1010, it appears united to the bi-
shopricks of Killaloe and Terryglass,
with the former of which it was proba-
bly permanently united at the Synod of
Rathbraissell, in 1118.
The island formerly belonged to the
county of Clare, but is now annexed to
Gal way, the parish of Inishcaltra being
divided between both counties.
The ruins of the Seven Churches are
still to be seen, and the Round Tower is
in good preservation. — O'B.
18 Henry, the second of that name suc-
ceeded as seventh Earl of Thomond,
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ENNISH MACONY," is at present the Interest of the Officers of
the 1649 security. This Island is in the County of Thomond, and
CON Y ISLAND20 took its name from the great number of Rabbits
arid Coneys there ; in it is seen the ruines of an ancient Chappel,
but without monument or Inscripcon.
Coverhane Castle21 was the seate and abode ot Menry, the nrst
Earle of Thomond, during the life of his father, the great Donnagh
O'Brien Earle of Thomond.
DEER ISLAND." In the County of Clare and Barony of Glon-
derala and Parish of Kilchrist, heretofore called Innish Moor.
INNISH CHIRKEY, an Island 257 acres profitable, parish of Kil-
dicert in Clonderala Barony, County of Clare.
Deer Islands Lodge is built out of the ruines of a Church or
Chappel. Among memorable accidents here wrote upon the door
of the bedchamber of the Rl. Honble. Henry Earle of Thomond are
these, with these dates :—
1657 ; he was married first to his cousin,
Lady Anne O'Brien, daughter of Henry,
fifth Earl of Thomond.
He married, secondly, Sarah Russell,
third daughter of Sir Francis Russell,
of Chippenham, Cambridge, widow of
the Cromwellian general Reynolds, who
had left her very rich, she having com-
pounded with his heirs-at-law for £5000
a year, and what arrears were due in
Ireland. Her sister was married to
Henry Cromwell, through whose in-
fluence the Earl was allowed to enter
into possession of his estates before the
Restoration.
He resided at Great Billing, in North-
amptonshire, and, being a Protestant,
his estates escaped the general forfei-
ture, in which almost the entire of the
county of Clare was subjected.
In Royal fashion, in the documents of
the day, he is styled Henry the Second,
Earl of Thomond, as may also be seen
on the monument in Limerick Cathedral,
which is generally read to be the second
Earl, whereas he was the seventh Earl of
Thomond.— O'B.
19 Now Inishmacowney , in the barony of
Clonderalaw, and was, in 1641, the pro-
perty of Gabriel Gallway.
It was granted, 19° Chas. II., to the
Earls of Ossory and Arran, and Sir
Arthur Gore, Bart., in trust for the 1649
officers.
It contains 225 statute acres, and is
now the property of Colonel Vandeleur,
of Kilrush House.— O'B.
20 Coney Island is now in the barony of
Clonderalaw, and contains 225 statute
acres ; but, by the Down Survey, it was
in the barony of Islands, and called
Inish-da-drom.
It was a benefice in itself, and included
in the titles of the Prsecentor of Killaloe;
but, in 1622, both the Rectory and Vicar-
age were returned to the Royal Visitors
as impropriate, in the gift of the Earl of
Thomond.
The walls of the ruined church are
still standing, and near them the foun-
dations of a still more ancient church.
Inish-da-drom is included in the Earl
of Thomond's patent of 1620, and is now
the property of Sir John Fitzgerald,
K. C. B. There is a pointed hill on the
island, which rises 194 feet above the
river. Near the summit, a monument to
one of the Fitzgerald family has been
erected. — O'B.
2' The Manor of Crovreaghanwas one
of the seven manors into which the Earl
of Thomond's estate in the county of
Clare, was divided. — O'B.
22 Inish More, or Deer Island, contains
443 acres, statute, and is the largest
island in the River Fergus.
This island, and Inish Carker, form
part of the Earl of Thomond's manor of
Crovreaghan, but were claimed before
the Royal Commissioners in 1622 by
Bishop Rider, as formerly belonging to
the See of Killaloe.— O'B.
" MDCLVI. This Hare was then cropt and turn'd into Deer Island ;
and in MDCLXXIII, ye sayd Earle kill'd her; and Anno MDCLXXII,
a Buck was kill'd there weighing 16 stone and two pounds."
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CANNON ISLAND," in the County of Thomond, ats Clare and
Barony of [ ] in it are seen the Ruines of an ancient Abby of
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Reeular Cannorw of the Rule of S'. Austin, whence it took its
nS of Cannon Island, which in Irish is Illean ne Cannanagh.
The South side of BUNRATTY Castle.
[There is no view in the MS. although the reference is given].
T. Rossmonaher Castle, belonging to Mr. de Starr.
This is the Principall seat of the most noble Family of the
O'Briens, Earles of Thomond adjoining to a very fair park with
This whole County being a Peninsula, and a kind of a Parke all
over, environ'd with the Shannon River and the sea, except a nar-
row'neck in the county of Galloway, abounding with staggs and
fallow Deer.
[Inthe]BARONYoflBRicHAM,25andintheBaronyofCoRCUMR026
in this County of Clare, both which Baronyes belong to the R*.
» Now Paradise, in the Manor of
Crovreaghan, was leased by the Earl of
Thomond, in fee farm, to Richard Henn,
and is now, after certain vicissitudes,
in the possession of Thomas Rice Henn,
Esq.
It is situated at the end of a steep
hill, overhanging the river, command-
ing beautiful views of the Fergus, and
its islands, and an immense range of
country, terminating with the moun-
tains of Cork, Limerick, Tipperary,
Clare, and Galway.
Fort Fergus was the property of the
Earl of Thomond, and leased, in 1656,
by the name of Rosscleave, to Lieut.
George Rosse, who was one of the
trustees of the Earl of Thomond's es-
tates during Cromwell's Protectorate.
His descendants assumed the name of
Ross-Lewin. — O' B.
24 Inishneganagh Priory, of the Order
of Augustin Canons, was founded here
by Donald More O'Brien, the last King
of Limerick. It was anciently called
Elanakanan, and in the patent of Henry
VIII., July, 1543, to Donogh O'Brien,
afterwards second Earl of Thomond,
creating him Baron Ibrackan, the Mo-
nastery of Eleannaganaghe, alias the
Island of the Canons, "as the said
Donogh now possesses it," was granted
to him, with the lands and tenements
thereto belonging. As the Earls of
Thomond possessed the rectorial tithes
of most of the parishes in the barony of
Clonderalaw, those, as well as a portion
at least of the Manor of Crovreaghan,
may have belonged to this priory.
This monastery was taxed at £1 6*.
Sd. to the See of Killaloe. The ruins
are considerable, and the tower, still
standing, serves as a mark for naviga-
ting the river. — O'B.
25 The Barony of Ibrickane, Hy Bre-
cain. was anciently a part of the king-
dom of Corca Bhaiscin, which subse-
quently merged in Thomond, the Mac
Mahons becoming chiefs in Clonderalaw
and Moyarta, and the Mac Germans in
Ibrickane, and they appear as such in
the submission made to Richard II., in
1394.
When Murrough O'Brien surrendered
his principality to Henry VIII., and
was created Baron of Inchiquin, with
remainder to his heirs, and Earl of
Thomond, with remainder to his nephew,
Donough O'Brien, Donough was also
created Baron of Ibrickane, and this
barony became thus a demesne manor,
under the name of Moih Ibreackan, the
chief castle whereof was Moick.
By the " Book of Distributions," the
whole barony was, with the exception
of one ploughland, the property of the
Earl of Thomond, in 1641.
The soil generally is very poor, but
much has been reclaimed by the use of
sea sand O'B.
26 Although a great deal of the land
in the Barony of Corcomroe is poor
mountain, yet some of it is very good.
It is told of one of the Patentees from
Charles II., that having obtained a
grant of land, he proceeded with his wife
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Honble. Henry Earle of Thomond, it is sayd that no Mouse or Ratt
will live by any meanes 24 hours ; and it is likewise given out that
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to inspect the land. Having reached the rocky appearance of that territory
Confin, he was so disheartened with that he refused to proceed any further.
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a clod or piece of the Earth of either of those Barony es is a sufficient
Antidote and preservative placed in any other House or Castle in
this Kingdome against these Vermine.
Over against Bunratty Castle on the other side of the Shannon
His wife, with more spirit, mounted her
horse, and took possession of what af-
terwards proved a valuable property.
This, and the Barony of Burren,
formed the kingdom of Corca-Madh-
ruadh, tributary to both Thomond and
Cashel. The O'Connors were kings
here, but having divided the territory,
the chiefs of Burren assumed the name
of O'Loughlin; its extent is still defined
by the Diocese of Kilfenora. When the
Earl of Thomond drove Sir Edward
Fytton out of the county for attempting
to hold a Court of Sessions at Ennis,
the banished Ex-Prince, Donald More
O'Brien, was taken into favour by the
English, which led to a compromise, by
which he obtained the chieftain's dues
arising out of the barony of Corcom-
roe, and was established at the Castle
of Dough, and thus the last rights of the
O'Connors were extinguished. Several
of that name were proprietors at the
time of the forfeiture in 1641, but none of
them obtained lands at the Restoration.
By the composition entered into with
Sir John Perrott, 17 August, 1585, it
was covenanted that the Earl of Tho-
mond should be paid five shillings out
of every quarter or plowland in the
county, except the barony of Inchiquin,
which was assigned to the Lords In-
chiquin, in compensation for the services,
duties, and cesses to which the chieftain
was exhibited from the freeholders.
This composition rent arising out of
100 quarters in the barony of Corcom-
roe, the Earl of Thomond leased to Sir
Turlogh O'Brien, who, having taken
out a patent of his lands from Queen
Elizabeth, became the founder of the
family of the O'Briens of Ennistvmon. —
O'B.
21 Bunratty Castle.— The first castle
recorded at Bunratty belonged to Ro-
bert de Mucegros, whose daughter and
heir married Sir William Mortimer,
who by her obtained the Manor of Char-
leton, Mucegros, and other lands in
England, which, they dying without
issue, passed to Edmund, Lord Mor-
timer, of Wigmore.
Robert Mucecroa, in 1275, surren-
dered to King Edward his castle of
Bouret in Ireland, " to defend it against
the Irish rebels." The year following,
the king directed Geoffry de Gyemul,
Lord Justice of Ireland, to take for the
king the Castle of Bawred, with the
Cantred of Tradery.
The same year King Edward made a
grant of Thomond to Lord Thomas de
Clare, brother of the Earl of Gloucester.
De Clare had held high offices in
England, and had planned and carried
into effect the escape of Edward, who,
with his father King Henry III., had
been made prisoners by the Earl of
Leicester.
De Clare came over to Ireland in
1276, and married the daughter of Lord
Offaley of Desmond ; when at Cork,
Brian Roe O'Brien, who had claimed
the principality of Thomond, from
which, however, he had been driven out,
went to him, and agreed to secure him
in the Cantred of Tradery, which in-
cluded a great part of the present
Barony of Lower Bunratty, provided
de Clare would recover for him the
Chieftainship of Thomond.
Bunratty Castle was occupied by de
Clare, and a civil war followed, in which
Brian Roe O'Brien was aided by the
Desmonds, and his rival and lawful
chief, Prince Turlogh O'Brien, was as-
sisted by the de Burghos ofGalway.
This struggle was terminated in 1317,
at the battle of Dysert O'Dea, when De
Clare's son and grandson were slain,
and the family of Brian Roe banished
from Clare.
One of the-very few cases of the kind
recorded in Irish history occurred at
Bunratty, where, in 1353, the Bishop of
Waterford caused two Irishmen of the
clan of the Mac Namaras to be burnt
for heresy.
When the Earl of Sussex was sent
into Clare to uphold the rights of Con-
nor Earl of Thomond, according to the
English law, he having recovered the
Castles of Bunratty and Clare, placed
Connor in possession, and from that
time Bunratty became the chief seat of
the Earls of Thomond in Clare.
A Parliamentary fleet, in 1646, hav-
ing entered the Shannon, Bunratty Cas-
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is a fair Castle called Carrig O' Gunnel,28 scituate upon an hill be-
longing to his Royall Highness, rented by the present Primate and
Chancellour of all Ireland, neer which, in a marie pitt, was lately
tie was given up to them by the Earl
of Thomond, who withdrew to England,
where he and his successors thencefor-
ward generally resided.
The Confederates, then in possession
of Limerick, were very anxious to drive
out the English from Bunratty, which
was defended by 600 men under Colonel
Me Adam. Being urged by the Nuncio,
Rinuccini, who joined the camp him-
self, the siege was commenced in April,
and the garrison surrendered on the 14
July.
Bunratty was one of the Manors of
the Earl of Thomond, and from it the
name of the Barony was taken (having
been originally called Dangan-I-Vigin)
when Clare was, in 1570, formed into a
county.
The walls of the castle are still very
perfect. Its position must have been
very isolated before the erection of the
bridge, and the embankment of the
neighbouring corcasses, which are of
great extent. — O'B.
*8 The Castle of Carrigogunnell, si-
tuated on a basaltic rock, which has
forced its way through the surrounding
limestone, forms a conspicuous object
from Limerick and the banks of the
River Shannon, long below Bunratty.
It is situated in the Barony of Pubble
Brien and the Parish of Kilkeedy, which,
anciently called Eschluona, was the ma-
nor of William De Burgho, Governor of
Limerick, in 1200, who, having married
Eva, the daughter of Donald More
O'Brien, the last king of Limerick, at-
tempted to set up a petty principality,
but was soon brought to submission by
Meyler Fitz Henry, then Justiciary of
Ireland.
His brother-in-law, Donough Cair-
breach O'Brien, although a younger son,
succeeded in obtaining the chieftain-
ship of Thomond, and having paid
homage to King John, at Waterford, in
1211, he obtained, amongst other things,
a grant of the lands of Carrigogunnell,
with the Lordship, for himself and his
heirs for ever, at a yearly rent of sixty
marks.
From him descended Connor O'Brien,
who was Prince of Thomond in 1399,
and before that, occupied the position of
tanist, or named successor; while such,
a license was granted by King Richard
II., 8 December, 1388, to the Earl of
Desmond to send his son to him to be
brought up or fostered, and thus an al-
liance was formed between the O'Briens
and the Fitz Geralds, which was ce-
mented by several intermarriages.
His third son, Brien Duff O'Brien,
settled in the county of Limerick, and
from him sprung the Lords of Agherloe
and Carrigogunnell.
In the State Papers of Henry VIII.,
it is stated in 1536, that Donough
O'Brien, afterwards created Baron
Ibrackan,who had married the daughter
of the Earl of Ossory in opposition to
his own father, who was Prince of Tho-
mond, and allied by marriage with the
Earl of Desmond, whose contests with
the Earl of Ossory caused so much evil
to the country, had offered to take Car-
rigogunnell, which, it is added, "never
belonged to an Englishman for 'two
hundred years," if he had an English
captain and soldiers, and a piece of
ordnance.
Sir Leonard Gray succeeded in put-
ting a ward of soldiers into the castle,
and gave it by indenture to the man
who had suggested the capture, but he
did not long enjoy it, " for the said
castell by tradyment was taken again by
the persons who had possessed it be-
fore."
It descended by inheritance to Sir
Brien Duff O'Brien, Knt., who married
Margaret, daughter of Hon. Donough
O'Brien of Dromoland, and Lemeneagh,
1585, July. Brien Duff O'Brien of Car-
rigogunnell, chief of his name in Pobel-
brien, and Lord of Pobel-brien, surren-
dered to the Queen his possessions of
Carrigogunnell, and other lands in the
county of Limerick, and took out a
patent for same, and was made a knight.
He died 11 July, 1615, and was suc-
ceeded by his son Donough, who died
without issue 20 June, 1632. Sir Brien
had a daughter, named Margaret, mar-
ried to Richard Stephenson, of Dunmoy-
lan, county of Limerick, who obtained
large grants of land in Connelloe.
Carrigogunnell, at Donough's death,
passed to a third cousin, Daniel O'Brien
of Doweyne, who married a daughter of
Richard Stephenson, but having taken
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taken up the skeleton of a monstrous man, whose thigh bone was
seven foot long, and all other part proporconable, whose skull could
conteine two Bushells, which is half a Bristoll Barrell of Grayne.
[The well known Rhyming Pedigree of the Lords of Clare is
here omitted] .
The BLAZING STARR29 (as it appeared to me & others in the
County of Thomond or Clare), taken at ye Castle of Rallahine,
belonging to Giles Vanderlure, Esqr., one of his Maties Justices of
ye peace for y' county in Ireland.
[See p. 82, supra. The MS. has here also a drawing of the
comet, but as it is merely an enlarged diagram of that given in the
view of Rathlahine Castle, it has not been engraved].
Decemb'. 10, 1680. " Nullus Cometes qui malum nullum ferat."
At its first appearance here at Rallahine Castle, being on Fri-
day night, Decembr 10th, 80, it shewed itself with a prodigious
long, pale, taper ray of a leaden Saturnine colour, without any signe
of a starr to be discern'd at its poynt. And that it continued to
January the 13nth following, is all the Observation I could make,
and comunicate to my friends in England, as being unacquainted
with Astrology.
But my acquaintance, Mr. Francis Herne, belonging to Mr.
Kerney, serjeant at armes & a learned Mathematician, from his house
in Castle-street, Dublin, sent down this account into Munster,
where it came to my hands.
part in the rising in 1641, the estate ries," second series, vol. ii., p. 316,
was forfeited. says : " This comet appeared first, of
After the restoration, Carrigogunnell, all observers of modern times, to God-
with four plowlands, was granted 1 frey Kirch, at Coburg, in Saxony, on
May, 13° Chas. II., to Michael Boyle, November 14, 1680, in the constellation
Lord Archbishop of Dublin. Leo. It was also observed in different
During the second siege of Limerick parts of Europe and America in the
in 1691, the castle was occupied by a same month. The perihelion passage oc-
force of 150 men for King James, but curredonDec. 18. After being obscured
General Scravemore having been sent by the sun's rays, it re-appeared, and
by Baron Ginkle with a strong party, was visible for months after Newton
and tour guns, the 150 soldiers were saw it on March 19, 1681. The time of
marched to Clonmell prisoners of war, reappearance is uncertain in the ex-
and Carrigogunnell converted, by the treme; Encke gives a period of 8800
use of gunpowder, into a ruin, still pic- years, Newton's and Plomsteed's ob-
turesque, and showing remains of its servations give 3164 years. Mr. Hind,
former strength however (» The Comets," by J. Russell
Larngogunnell is generally trans- Hind, 1842), remarks that the obser-
Rock of the Candle, but Mr. vations collected by Encke are recon-
> Donovan states the proper name cileable with an elliptical orbit of 805
Svn MIg~S gloinnea1' Rock of the years, or with a hyperbolic one. It has
been proved that this comet is not iden-
blazing starry-Mr. C. Mans- tical with those of 1 106, 531, and before
field Ingoldsby, in •' Notes and Que- Christ 43 "— J G
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At the City and Archbishoprick of Dublin, a Blazing Comet
appear'd Wednesday ye 15 Decembr. 1680. It had a very long
Bushy Tayle or Trayne, pale, whiteish, glairing, not unlike the
shew of candle light through white paper. The starr itself was
not then very conspicuous, though its Raye or Beame shott itself
forth, so that ye starr of the 3 starrs called the Eagles Heart was
exactly in the middle of its blaze.
On Thursday the 16, its gastly brush tayle was seen on the
south of the Heart of the Eagle within half the breadth of the
Raye, &c. ; this is also sayd to have been seen in England much
about the same time. At Erford, in Germany Thuring. on ye
18 Novembr. 80. In France, 24 Novr. at Bourdeaux. Att Ham-
borough, 27 Decr. 1680, & at Mentz, Novemb. 80.
Wth these things the Irish were ready to furnish an inquisitive
stranger, which were not a little gratefull to my curiosity.
(To be continued.}
THE LAST OF THE O'NEILLS, EARLS OF TYRONE.
BY WILLIAM PINKERTON, F. S. A., F. A. S. L.
M. DE LA PONCE, of Tours, having communicated to this "Jour-
nal" some genealogical and biographical notices of Hugh O'Neill,
Earl of Tyrone — whom he also, ludicrously enough, terms Prince
of Ulster — and his descendants, I must here claim a few words to
expose our French genealogist's most obvious errors ; and I feel
bound to observe, that I do so with every possible respect and con-
sideration for M. de la Ponce.
Hugh O'Neill, the last Earl of Tyrone, having been educated
in England, and brought up in the house of Sir Henry Sidney,
knew the value of his pedigree, and took care of it. His flight from
Ireland is thus described in the " Annals of the Four Masters,"
our best possible authority : —
" Maguire (Cuconnaught) and Donough, the son of Mahon, son of the
Bishop O'Brien, brought a ship with them to Ireland, and put in at the
harbour of Swilly. They took with them from Ireland the Earl O'Neill
(Hugh, the son of Ferdorcha), and the Earl O'Donnell (Rury, the son of
Hugh, son of Manus), with a great number of the chieftains of the pro-
vince of Ulster. These were they who went with O'Neill, namely, the
Countess Catherina, the daughter of Magennis, and her three sons, Hugh,
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the baron, John, and Brien; Art Oge,' the son of Cormac, son of the
baron; Ferdorcha, son of Con, son of O'Neill; Hugh Oge, the son of
Brian, son of Art O'Neill; and many others of his faithful fremds.
The O'Neills proceeded to Rome, and there seem to have sank
into utter oblivion. Scarcely any traces of them exist in history ; but
we know that Hugh, the Earl, received two pensions— one from the
kin" of Spain, of 600 crowns, and another from the Pope, of 100
crowns per annum. And we have a slight glance of the Earl, that
I do not think has ever been noticed in print before, in the "Tra-
vels"2 of the old Scotchman, Lithgow, who was in Rome in 1609,
and fell under suspicion of the Inquisition there ; and as it is to be
hoped that O'Neill knew of the Scotch Protestant's concealment
in his palace, it is a pleasing reminiscence of the old Irish warrior
deserving to be quoted here. Lithgow says : —
" And to speake truth, if it had not beene for Robert Meggat, born
near to Newbottle, then resident in Burgo di Roma, with the old Earl of
Tyrone, who had me secretly for three dayes in the top of his Lord's Pal-
lace, when all the streetes and ports of Rome were laid for me, who con-
veighing me away at the fourth midnight, and leapt the walles of Rome
with mee, I had doubtlesse dyed as hot a death as a Lady Prioresse of
Naples did afterward. And for better record Patricke Baxter, now dwell-
ing in Dundy, and then followed the Earle of Tyrone, can justify the
same, my custody and my escape being both within his knowledge."
In the record of the " Four Masters," we have Hugh, the
Earl, and his three sons, placed according to their birth and age,
namely Hugh, the Baron, John, and Brian; Henry, an elder son,
who had been a hostage to the King of Spain, having previously
died at Brussels, as is clear from Hugh being styled the Baron ;
and in the " Four Masters" we have the death of Hugh, in 1609,
described in these words: —
4< Hugh O'Neill, the son of Hugh, son of Ferdorcha, and the heir
of the Earl O'Neill (Tyrone), the only expectation of the Kinel-Owen3
to succeed his father, if he had survived him, died, and was buried in the
same place with his mother's brothers, the Earl of O'Donnell and Caffar."
Hugh, the Earl, the father of Hugh, the Baron, died in the
age of Christ 1616, as is thus told in the "Annals of the Four
Masters" : —
" O'Neill (Hugh, the son of Ferdorcha, son of Con Baccagh, son of
i Art Oge was the illegitimate son of Adventures and painefull Peregrinations
Cormac Mac Baron, who died a prisoner of lone nineteen years Travailes from
in the Tower of London ; he was also Scotland to the most famous Kingdoms
the brother of the Earl, and father of in Europe, Asia, and Affrica." By Wil-
the afterwards celebrated Owen Roe Ham Lithgow. Sm. 4to. 1640.
°'Neill. 3 That is "the tribe of Owen"— the
» "The total Discourse of the rare O'Neills.
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Con, son of Henry, son of Owen), who had been Baron from the death of
his father to the year when the celebrated Parliament was held in Dub-
lin, 1585, and who was styled Earl of Tyrone at that Parliament, and
was afterwards styled O'Neill, died at an advanced age."
There is then only John and Brian left of the legitimate sons of
the Earl, and John succeeded to the titular Earldom. For I am
ashamed to say, that a vindictive and unjust bill was introduced to
the Irish Parliament, for the attainder of Tyrone and his fellow-
exiles, by the Roman Catholic Knight, Sir John Everard, and it
passed unanimously.
To prove that this John succeeded to the Earldom, I will cite
a manuscript in Trinity College, Dublin, in the handwriting, as
Primate Usher has recorded, of the historian, O'Sullivan Beare.
Its date is about 1618, and it recites that Don John O'Neill,
Earl of Tyrone, Colonel of the Irish in Flanders ; Don Hugh
O'Donnell, Earl of Tyrconnell, page to the Infanta1 in Flanders,
were presented to the King of Spain by Florentius, Archbishop of
Tuam.
And in another document in the same collection (MSS., T. C.
D., E. 3. 8), but dated 1625, purporting to be presented to the
Lords of the Council in Spain, " to the end that they may know
what Irish they make use of on the King's occasions." It includes
among the " ancient Irish seculars in his Majesty's dominions,'*
the names of"Dom. John O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, Corronell of
the Irish in Flanders; Dom. Hugh O'Donnell, Earl of Tyr-
connell, page to the Infanta in Flanders ; " and " Dom. Eugenius
O'Neill, Sergeant- Major." This last was the celebrated Owen
Roe O'Neill. The rank of serjeant-major in a regiment was then
equal to that of a major now, while a serjeant-major of an army
then performed the same duties, and had the same rank, as a
quartermaster-general at the present day.
Again, Hugh Mac Caughwell, Archbishop of Armagh, died at
Rome in 1626, and John O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, erected a monu-
ment to his memory in the Church of St. Isidore, on which there
were the following words : —
" EXCELLENTISSIMUS DOMINUS
JOHANNES O'NEALE TIRONI^; COMES
HUNC LAPIDEM PONI FECIT."
These words will be found in the " Supplementum" to De
Burgo's " Hibernia? Dominicans," p. 784 ; and also in Ware's
u Writers," p. 104. But why need I refer to books ; I quote them
from my own memorandum book, for I read them myself on the
monument some quarter of a century ago, and from the state the
1 Isabella Clara Eugenia, Infanta of Spain.
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inscription was in then, it promised to be. equally as legible for a
century to come.
Of" the end of the reign of Charles I. there is m the State
Paper Office a great number of documents connected herewith,
but unfortunately undated. One of them is exceedingly interest-
ing, and well worthy of a place here. It is a list of the Irishmen
abroad, who might be dangerous to the peace of Ireland in the
event of a war with Spain; and as peace was declared with that
nation in 1630, we may conclude it was written in that year. The
notes in the margin, and words underlined, have no doubt been
made as marks of importance by the officer who had received the
paper. It is as follows :—
"The dangers of Ireland not yet doubted, because that kingdome
seemeth quiet, doe depend most on the plottes and pur-
poses of Irish commanders serving forraigne Princes. . ^. . . .
" The Irish servinge forraigne Princes are either soldiers or pensioners
in Spain, Italy, France, Germany, Poland, and under the Archduchess ;
wherof many are growne expert soldiers by sea and land. A list of many
of the chiefest of them, as far as I can learne, I have here inserted : —
** Don Ricardo Buck (for so he Burke is called), being of the Earle of
Clanricard's kindred, is a man much experienced in martiall affaires, and
much estemed for his judgment in the mathematickes, and a good ingi-
niere. He served many yeares under the Spanish in Naples, from thence
he was employed to the West Indies, and returned to Spaine. After-
wards, with supply of new authority, he was sent to the Low Countreys,
and was highly respected by the Archdutchess. He was called to the
Emperor, and was appointed Leiutenant-Generall ; but the Emperor
refrayned that intended expedition. The Duke of Florence hearing of
N B his sufficiency sent for him, and made him Governor of Lygorne* ,
where he hath lived in great esteeme.
"In Milaine Phellemy O'Neile, nephew unto old Tyrone,
liveth in greate Request, and is a Captaine to a troop of Horse.
u There is also one James Routh, an Alpheres of a Company amongst
the Spanish Infantrie, he is a brother to Captaine John Routh, a pensioner
in Naples, whoe carried Tyrone out of Ireland.
" In the Citty of Florence, there is one Captaine Salamon McDa, of the
house of the Geraldines, whoe claimeth as a Geraldine to be descended
from out of Florence, by the Duke he is enterteyned. He fled out of
Spaine for Killing an English gentleman, whoe was one of the English
Ambassador's gentlemen, and is a pensioner to the Duke of Florence,
having byn a soldier.
" In Naples, Sir Thomas Talbot, Knight of the Order of Malta, a re-
solute and welbeloved man. He attained to that order, partly by his Ser-
vice, and by Tyrone's endevours.
" In Naples alsoe lived a long while the Lord Wise, the titulary Prior
of England, but of later times he removed into Spayne, and liveth at
Court there. Soe there other Irish Captaynes and officers in Naples.
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" In Spayne, Captaine Phelemy Kavanagh, sonne in law to Donnel
Spaniough, serveth under the King by sea. Captayne Art O Morcho, a
valiant man and well accounted. Captayne Soulevayne, a man of noted
courage. Theis live commonly at Lisbone, and are sea captaines, besides
others of the Irish. Captaine Driscoll, the younger, son to old Captayne
Driscoll, both men reckoned valorous, and the ffather of most experience.
" In the Court of Spayne liveth the son of Richard BurJc, which was
nephew unto Mc William, whoe dyed at Valladoltd, the young man was page
N B unto the last Kinge of Spayne. He is in high favour with the
Kinge, and, as it is reported, is to be made a Marques. Captayne
Toby Burke, a pensioner in the Court of Spayne, another nephew to the
said Mc William deceased. Captayne John Burke M°Shane, whoe served
long time in Flaunders, and now liveth on his pension assigned in the
Groyne. Captayne Daniell, a pensioner at Antwerpe.
" In the Low Countryes under the Archduchess.
" John O'Neile, son to the Arch-Traitor, Tyrone, Colonell of the Irish
Regiment, young O'Donell, son to the late Traiterous Earle of Tircon-
nell, Owen O'Neill,1 Sergeant-Major of the Irish Regiment, Captaine Art
O'Neile, Captaine Cormock O'Neile, Captayne Donell O'Donnell, Cap-
taine Thady O'Sulevan, Captayne Preston, Captaine Fitz Gerrott, old
Captaine Fitz Gerrott, sometimes Sergeant-Major, now a Pensioner, Capt.
Edmond O'Mo[ ], Capt. Brian O'Rely, Captaine Stanihurst, Captaine
Garlon, Capt. Daniel, Captaine Walshe.
" There are divers other Captaines and officers of the Irish under the
Archduchess, some of whose companies are cast, and they are made Pen-
sioners. Of theis serving under the Archduchesse, there are about 100,
able to command companyes, and twenty fitt to be Colonells. Many of
them are descended of gentlemens families and some of noblemens.
" Theis Irish Soldiers and Pensioners doe stay their resolutions untill
they see whether England makes peace or warr with Spayne. If peace,
they have practised already with other forraigne Princes, from whom
they have received hopes of assistance. If warre insue, they are confident
of greater ayde.
'* They have byn longe providinge of armes for any attempt against
Ireland, and had in rediness five or six thousand Arms laid up in Ant-
werpe for that purpose, bought out of the deduction of their monthly pay,
as will be proved. And it is thought, they have nowe doubled that pro-
portion by this meanes.
N B "If his Majesty shall think fitt whilst the peace is nowe treated of
(as the fittest time to prevent future perills, it being neglected at
the making of the last peace with Spayne) to imploy some trusty and suffi-
cient man unto the Archduchesse. to procure the restraint of dangerous
designes by the Irish serving under her, and some other to the King of
Spayne for that purpose, I doe conceive much insuinge danger may be
avoyded; or, if that shold not take effect, yet meanes may be made, under
cullor of that message, to deale with some imployed there, whoe shall
discover unto the State here any evill intentions the Irish there shall goe
about to trouble Ireland. And I think I knowe whoe are fittest to be
ingaged in that service.
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" Besides, under correction, I conceive that some provision for
strength ofarmesand soldiers for resistance of rebellion or invasion of
Ireland is most needfull, wherein I believe I can show and sett downe a
course 'howe seaven thousand foote, and three hundred horse maybe
ahvaies in a rediness well armed in that Kealme, for the safety thereof,
without any charge to his Malie, or greate burthen to the country, which
I shall be redy to propound, when I shall be thereto commanded by his
Mau', soe that it be kept secret unto his royall self, otherwise the dis-
covery of theis things, will disappoint and defeate his service for the safety
of that kingdome."
It is clear, then, that John O'Neill was the titular Earl
of Tyrone, and that he commanded the Irish regiment in Flanders.
He died also early in 1641; for, in the confession of Lord Ma-
guire,1 written with his own hand, when under sentence of death,
and delivered by him to Sir John Conyers, the Lieutenant of the
Tower, to be presented to the Lords in Parliament, he says that
one Neale O'Neill was sent by the Earl of Tyrone to seek out the
gentry of his name and kindred in Ireland ; but a report even then
was spread that the Earl was dead, which was not believed ;
" but presently after his departure the Earl's death was known ;"
and he continues, " the Pope had given several promises formerly
to my Lord of Tyrone to maintaim 6000 men yearly at his own
charge, and that, notwithstanding that my Lord of Tyrone was
dead, yet that he would continue the same forwardness now."
The greatest error of M. de la Ponce appears to be in con-
founding John with Brian O'Neill. It is John who is alluded to
in Moore's "History of Ireland," where it says that, "in 1640,
although Tyrone has been many years dead, a son worthy of his
name and fame was still alive, who commanded a regiment in the
Spanish service." It is the same John who is alluded to by both
Wills and Keating, whom M. de la Ponce quotes. I am really
surprised at the assumptions of a genealogist, who tells us that he
has "proved that Shane O'Neill, another legitimate son of Hugh,
Karl of Tyrone, was in Ireland about the year 1646, with his
relative, Owen Roe O'Neill." Now, the proof of this is merely the
words from Wills' "Lives of Illustrious Irishmen," as follows : —
44 In the meantime, Shane O'Neill, whom his commander (Owen
Uoe) had posted in the rear of the cavalry, advanced with his
twelve companies" This is what M. de la Ponce calls the
proof that this Shane was the legitimate son of Hugh O'Neill !
And he^ further asks, " If Brian, another legitimate son of this
Count (Tyrone) is ^not the Colonel, who died in the Spanish ser-
vice in 1641, what is the name of this Colonel, who was legitimate
Fon of the Count of Tyrone? We should be happy to learn
this fact from the anonymous gentleman." Well, though I do not
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know the anonymous gentleman, nor have I seen any of his
writings, I shall take upon me to answer the question . His name
was Shane or John, and he died at St. Fleu, in Catalonia, January
22nd, 1641.1
To resume for one moment, we find, according to the '* Four
Masters," the very best authority in a case of this kind, that Hugh
O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, died in 1616, at Rome; his then eldest
son and heir pre-deceased his father, dying at Rome in 1609. At
the death of the Earl, or immediately after, John assumed the title,
became Colonel of the Irish regiment at Brussels, and finally died at
St. Fleu in 1641 ; for this I give sufficient documentary evidence.
Brian, the youngest son of Hugh, the Earl, died at Brussels about
1619. I may add here, that John O'Neill left an illegitimate son
named Hugh, to whom Philip IV. of Spain gave his father's regi-
ment, and also granted him letters of legitimization ; but, in 1 642,
the Pope refused to give confirmation to those letters. Hugh,
too, was inactive in his nature, thought nothing of his Irish
descent, and never went at any time to that country.
Though Sir Phelim O'Neill was bred up a Protestant in Eng-
land, when he heard of the death of John O'Neill, in 1641, his
ambition became excited, and he at once rushed into the con-
spiracy, urging Roger O'More to commence the insurrection. And
as the most considerable of his name [he was legitimately descended
from an Owen O'Neill, grandfather by the father's side to Con
Baccagh] in Ireland, he prematurely set fire to the train of rebel-
lion, and speedily found himself the leader of several thousand
men. His success turned his weak brain, accounting himself King
of Ulster, and assuming the title of" the O'Neill;" he even took
greater authority than had ever been given of old to the dignity,
and engrafting upon his learning, gained at Lincoln's Inn, made
various feudal grants — " according to our regal intention." But
when Owen Roe O'Neill arrived in Ireland, the gentlemen of
Ulster unanimously chose him as their commander-in-chief, but
declared neither of them to be " the O'Neill," though Owen
was troubled all his life by the emulation of Sir Phelim O'Neill,
and his relations. So we are told by Carte, though Moore as
distinctly says, that Owen was elected "the O'Neill," though
he really was the illegitimate son of an illegitimate father. Either
story, however, is utterly condemnatory of the idea, that a legiti-
mate son of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, commanded the
cavalry in the army of Owen Roe O'Neill, as we are most as-
suredly told by M. de la Ponce.
That a legitimate son of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, was an
officer in Owen Roe's army in Ireland, without the fact being
i Carte.
known to the Irish people at the time, or to Irish antiquaries
now, is simply an absurd impossibility. An "O'Neill" would
have been hailed by ten thousand Irish voices, and not concealed
under a bushel, to be discovered now by a French genealogist.
What does M. de la Ponce offer us as a proof of his bare assertion ?
Not one word. The pedigree of M'Curtin is simply erroneous.
The certificate by the officers of the Brigade of Walsh only states
that James Henry O'Neill is born " of the ancient and illustrious
family of the O'Neills;" and I will get one hundred different
families of O'Neill in the North of Ireland to state the same thing
at the present day.
In the war of the Revolution, one Gordon O'Neill, said to be
the son of Sir Phelim, was raised to be a Brigadier-General, and
claimed to be of the family of " the O'Neill." At this time
one Balldearg O'Donnell, the next of kin to the last O'Donnell,
Earl of Tyrconnell, came to Ireland. He was also a brigadier; and
Storey, speaking of him, says — " It is incredible how fast the
vulgar Irish flocked to him at his first coming ; so that he got in a
small time 8000 rapparees, and such like people, together." King
James himself says, that " Ballderrick O'Donnell had set up for
an independent commander, and having got together no less than
eight regiments newly raised, with a crowd of loose men over and
above, lived in a manner at discretion." Now Talbot, who was
then Earl of Tyrconnell, opposed the services of Balldearg as much
as he possibly could. Colonel O'Kelly, in the " Excidium Ma-
caria?," says, that —
" The King recommending him to Talbot, he gave him the command
of the new levies, raised by the inhabitants of the province of Ulster, who
were then retired into Connaught, but afforded him neither arms or
maintenance; and observing soon after that O'Donnell grew popular
among the old Irish, he took from him some of the new legions, whom he
incorporated in the standing army, leaving him and the rest without any
manner of subsistence. He also encouraged the nobles of Ulster, and
even the Tribunes of his own Brigade, to oppose him, in order to suppress
his aspiring mind; but his chiefest aim was to breed jealousies between
him and Gordon O'Neill, descended from the first Prince of Ulster; for
he apprehended (and perhaps he had reason) that if the forces of Ulster,
all composed of old Irish, were united together, they might easily obstruct
his design to reduce Ireland under the jurisdiction of William, in order
to preserve there the English interest, which is held so sacred by those
of England, and even by some natives of Ireland deriving their extraction
from thence, wherof Talbot was one, that they prefer it before the true
worship of the immortal Gods."
m Balldearg O'Donnell, however, little recked of Talbot's oppo-
sition, he was readily bought over to the other side, and ended his
days comfortably, with a pension of £500 per annum, granted by
William III.
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The simple fact of such intrigues clearly shows that there was
no knowledge then in Ireland of a lineal descendant of the Earl of
Tyrone. He indeed had wisely proceeded to the island of Marti-
nico, when, or under what circumstances, we are not toloj. Though,
I conceive, it would be almost as difficult for an Irishman in the
seventeenth century to settle in a French West India island, as it
was, some 3000 years earlier, for an inhabitant of the Grecian Ar-
chipelago to settle in Ireland.
Divide et impera was always the rule of English government
in Ireland. I have referred above to an undated paper in the
State Paper Office, and I am tempted here now to refer to another.
It is written by Sir Pierce Crosbye, and addressed " to the right
honble the Lo. Conway, principal secretary to his Majesty," so it
cannot be of a later date than 1625, when Conway resigned the
secretaryship. Its principal purport is "the Irish souldiers in
Flanders," whom the writer considers to " have been enterteyned
and kept there of purpose to be throwne back agayne as firebrands
when occasion should serve."
"I hould Tirconnell's sonne," Sir Pierce says, "the likeliest to be
wonne, and that for these reasons: — First, his mother, being of English
descent, hath often advised with myself and other of her allyes how to
bring home her sonne, and to move his late Majesty to be gracious unto
him, which, it is to be presumed, she would not have done, if she had not
understood his own inclination and propense thereunto, having had, as
may well be supposed, frequent correspondency with him, by letters and
messages.
" Secondly, there is betweene him and Tyrone's sonne an implacable
emulation, O'Donnell esteeming himself the better gent., and disdayning
to be inferior to the other, and yet well knowing that the name of O'Neill
in Ireland will carry the superioritie, and invassel him if they should
atchieve their purpose.
"Lastly, the foresayd Capt. Preston, who is brother to the Vicount
Gormanstowne, and will certainly be glad to quitt that partie upon any
reasonable tearmes, hath of all men the greatest power with the young
gent., and will, I am confident, persuade him effectually to accept of any
good conditions, and to sue for grace.
" If this be effected, it will be a matter of very great consequence, for
against this man, the old rule of state, to rayse a Kowland for an Oliver
will little avayle, there being no competitor to O'Donnell, except Sir
Neill O'Donnell, now in the Tower, so that the King must otherwise be
at the charge of an army to suppress him. Besides the weakening of Ty-
rone, who, being left to trust to his owne followers in the North, will be
greatly subdued, without any great charge to his Majesty, in regard of
divers of his own name and kindred, who may be mayntayned and coun-
tenanced agaynst him."
The Countess of Tyrconnell, whom Crosbie speaks of in this
paper as being of English descent, was a daughter of Henry, twelfth
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Earl of Kildare, and Lady Frances Howard, daughter of Charles,
Earl of Nottingham. When her husband fled from Ireland, she
refused to go with him, and immediately after gave birth to a
daughter, who was adopted by James I., who gave her, at the
fount, the name of Marie Stuart. The Earl died at Rome in 1 608 ;
and when his daughter, Marie, came to marriageable years, she was
intended to have been married to a Protestant, but, disdaining such
a catastrophe, she fled, in men's clothes, to the Continent, and
claimed the protection of the Infanta, at Brussells. This event
created a sensation throughout all Europe. She was compared^to
Euphrosyne of Alexandria, to Aldegonde, and other sainted virgins
of antiquity. The Pope wrote her a letter, in his own hand, prais-
in<r and blessing her. A history of the affair, written by Albert
Henriques, was published at Brussels, in 1627, under the title,
" Resolution Varonil o Viage que heco Donna Maria Estuarda
Condesa de Tirconel entrage de baron, Historia Entretenidp y
Verdadero." And in the following year it was translated into
French by Pierre de Cadenat, and published at Paris, as " Reso-
lution courageuse et lon'able, de la Countesse de Tirconel, Irlan-
doise. Ses adventures, et ses voyages en habit de cavalier, estant
persecutee pour la religion Catholique en Angleterre."
The late Mr. O'Donovan tells us that this Marie Stuart
afterwards married the Earl of Fingall. But it was an elder
daughter, named Elizabeth, whom Tyrconnell, in a fit of loyalty,
had called after the maiden queen, that married the Earl of Fin-
gall. Marie Stuart died a virgin nun, in a foreign convent.
The above was written, and in the hands of the editor, several
months before the publication of the Rev. C. P. Meehan's "Fate and For-
tunes of Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone." He states that Henry O'Neill,
Tyrone's second son, assumed the title after his father's death, and that
he was Colonel of the Irish regiment as early as 1605 ; but he does not
give us any documentary evidence for these assertions, and we never
hear of him after his father's death, in 1616. Mr. Meehan further tells us,
in allusion to an undated letter of William Turnbull, which appears to
have been written in 1615: — " Of Henry's career we have not been able
to get further data; but there is no doubt that he continued Colonel of
the Irish regiment till his death, which must have occurred some time
before 1626, when the Earldom devolved on John ; the latter succeeded
to the command held by his brother." Now I have clearly shown,
that John O'Neill was titular Earl of Tyrone, and Colonel of the Irish
regiment in Flanders, as early as 1618, two years only after old Tyrone's
death. Can Mr. Meehan have mistaken Henry for John ? The last
authentic account I have of Henry is, that he is mentioned in the bill of
attainder passed by the Irish Parliament in 1614. lam, therefore, com-
pelled to conclude that Henry O'Neill died before his father."
PROCEEDINGS AND PAPERS,
QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING, held at the Society's Apart-
ments, William-street, Kilkenny, on Wednesday, July 10th,
1867.
THE REV. RICHARD DEVERELL, A. M., in the Chair.
The following new Members were elected : —
The Rev. Dr. Gargan, Professor of Ecclesiastical History, St.
Patrick's College, Maynooth : proposed by the Rev. J. Hughes.
John James Perceval, Esq., Barntown House, Wexford: pro-
posed by Beauchamp Colclough, Esq.
The Rev. George T. Parks, M. A., Wesleyan Mission House,
Bishopsgate-street Within : proposed by the Rev. G. Vance.
William Gray, Esq., Mount Charles, Belfast : proposed by Ro-
bert Day, jun., Esq.
Mr. Prim — having been commissioned at the last meeting of
the Society, to ascertain if the Commissioners of National Educa-
tion, in recently purchasing some premises adjoining the Model
School, had any intention of removing the portion of the old city
wall which divides the school grounds from the premises — now re-
ported the result of his inquiries. He had been informed by L.
Harkin, Esq., the local Inspector of National Schools, that the ob-
ject in purchasing the premises in question was not to increase the
area of the school, but to prevent any unsightly building being
erected there, or use made of them which might be deemed a nui-
sance to the institution which they had hitherto adjoined and over-
looked. There was no intention whatever of interfering with the
existing portion of the town wall, or the old bastion attached to it —
of which, indeed, Mr. Prim observed, every possible care was taken
by Mr. Ryan, the Head Master (a member of their Society), with
the full approbation of Mr. Harkin.
The report was considered very satisfactory by the meeting.
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The following presentations were received, and thanks voted to
the donors :—
By Mr. Bettesworth Lawless : an Irish shilling of James I.,
with the legend on the obverse, HENRICUS ROSAS REGNA JACOBUS.
By MrfX. Lyster, Rockvilla : a Japanese letter, with its en-
By the Rev. G. H. Reade, Iniskeen : a sketch of an ancient
Irish hand-bell in his own possession, which resembled the bell of
St. Fechin, described in a paper on ancient Irish bells, printed in
the second volume of the Society's "Journal," first series, as being
composed of iron with a coat of bronze riveted on to the outside.
It was 8 inches high, 2 inches round the mouth, and its greatest dia-
meter T^inches. It was an adjuration bell — mostprobably St. Colum-
kill's, as it was found at Gartan, in the county of Donegal, and had
been preserved in a family there from time immemorial. It was also
used as a medicine bell, a draught of water out of it being the pa-
nacea. In 1847, the potato failure drove the family of the " keeper"
to America, and it was then sold to the person from whom Mr. Reade
had since bought it. The rivets were bronze, the handle iron, and
the outer covering was nearly perfect. The inside lining of iron
consisted of four plates ; and he fancied that it was put there to
keep the venerated bronze together ; but the usual way of manufac-
turing such bells was to form them of iron, which was then dipped
in molten bronze. The iron in this instance did not line the top,
which was convex. The bronze outside was one casting.
Mr. Robertson exhibited a leaf of an old MS. memorandum
book, entrusted to him by the Dean of Ossory for the purpose of
placing on record the following entry, written thereon in a hand of
the end of the seventeenth century : — •
" In Athey, in Ireland, lived at the time of ye Revolution Mrs. Mun-
ford who had 19 sons riding at the same time in Captain Wolseley's troop
not Regimented. She lived to bury them all."
Lord Gort communicated to the Rev. James Graves, in the hope
that some of the members of the Kilkenny Archaeological Society
could throw light on the matter, the existence till recently of a
very curious commemorative custom at Combmartin, in Devonshire,
which had a reference to Ireland, being known as " Hunting the
Earl of Rone," or « Hunting the Hare of Rone," the Earl of Tyrone
being said to be the fugitive alluded to. The Rev. W. S. Hore,
Rector of Shebbeare, in Devonshire, had sent to his Lordship an
extract from the North Devon Scenery Book, by the Rev. George
Engevell, which stated that the Earl of Tyrone, or a political re-
fugee, supposed in Combmartin to be such a personage, was cap-
tured by a detachment of soldiers in Lady's Wood, near that vil-
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kge, during the times of 'the Irish Rebellion. The legend goes
that he had been wandering in the neighbourhood for some time
before his capture, and had lived on a string of ship biscuits which
he had hung round his neck, and which he had procured from the
little vessel which landed him on the North Devon coast.
The Rev. Mr. Hore added :—
" Shortly after my ordination, I was appointed in August, 1842, to
the curacy of Combmartin, a parish on the coast of the British Channel,
near Ilfracombe. In this year there was a suspension of the custom, but
in the following one, 1833, 1 was applied to, in order to ascertain whether
I would object to its renewal. Having a fondness for old customs, I con-
sented, on the following conditions, viz., that it should not come off (I
believe) on Ash Wednesday ; and that the parties should not conclude the
proceedings by drinking in one of the many public houses in the village.
A promise to abide by these terms was made, and everything went off
quietly on the day of the revel or fair. I left the parish shortly after-
wards, and it appears that the custom of keeping the anniversary of the
Earl of Tyrone's (or some other person's) capture ceased two or three
years afterwards. I should observe that Mr. Engevell is wrong in head-
ing the story as ' Hunting the Earl of Rone ;' it should have been 'Hunt-
ing the Hare of Rone.' I perfectly well remember my amusement when
the leader of the proceedings, an intelligent old sailor, explained to me
that the ' Hare of Rone' was a great Irish rebel, the Earl of Tyrone !"
The commemoration, and the legend connected with it, were
deemed very curious, but none of the members present seemed
able to reconcile it with the known history of the O'Neills of Ty-
rone, who furnished political refugees certainly, but not, so far as
authentic history had recorded, any one who was captured in Eng-
land.
The Rev. John O'Hanlon sent, in continuation of his former
papers, an account of the materials for Irish County Histories, con-
tained in the Irish Ordnance Survey documents, so far as related
to the counties of Sligo and Roscommon, as follows : —
" Having so far described the MS. materials for County Histories
relating to Leinster, Ulster, and Munster, it only remains to give an out-
line of the Irish Ordnance Survey documents, which have reference to
the province of Connaught. I shall therefore commence with the county
of Sligo : —
" The Topographical Collection Catalogue for Sligo presents the an-
nexed enumeration of County Records, viz.: — I. Inquisition in Common
Place Book, M.1 II. Names from Down Survey, see Connaught volume.
III. Extracts, one volume;2 see also Common Place Books, N. and M.
1 Now preserved in the Library of the to Irish Part of Local Names, noticed
Royal Irish Academy. as not arranged, has been used for the
2 Now preserved in the Royal Irish purpose of compiling a newer Index for
Academy's Library. The Rough Index the Extract volume.
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Rough Index of Places to Irish Part, not arranged. IV. Grant from
King Charles the 2nd, in Common Place Book, N., with Queen's County
Inquisitions.1 V. Letters, one volume.2 VI. Name Books, 50. VII. Ba-
rony and Parish Names, one volume. VIII. Memorandums, ons volume.
IX. County Index of Names on Ordnance Maps, one volume. X. County
Queries and Presentments, one. XI. Memoir Papers (see Detailed List
annexed).
"I. The Inquisition relating to Sligo, as found in the Common Place
Book, M., has been already described in the second series of the ' Journal'
of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society, Vol. II.
for 1858, at p. 46, note 2; and p. 100, note 2. This 4to volume is now-
bound in the style of the MSS., transferred to the Royal Irish Academy.
44 II. The Names from Down Survey are contained in a bound folio
volume of 280 pages. Not one half of those pages are written. On the
title page we find inscribed 'CONTENTS — Galway, page 31 to 49; Index,
page 31; Leitrim, pages 59 to 143; Index, page 59. Mayo, pages 151
to 183; Index, page 151. Sligo, pages 191 to 279; Index, page 191.'
Under the respective headings of Baronies and Parishes are found —
usually, but not uniformly, in three columns — the various denominations
of Forfeited Lands. In several instances, these denominations are left im-
perfect, with the words * burned off' found inserted. From the contents,
an idea will naturally be formed regarding the value of this volume for
purposes of historical and topographical investigation.
" The volume of Extracts is 4to bound, and in the style of MSS.
transferred to the Royal Irish Academy. It contains 428 written and
numbered pages, besides 33 pages of Index to Irish and English Denomi-
nations prefixed, with the following Maps on tracing paper postfixed: —
1. Trace from a MS. Map of Ireland, on vellum, without date, inscribed
' To the moste honourable myne Especial 1 good Lorde, the Erie of Sals-
barye, Lord Highe Trer of Englande.' This map was made in the six-
teenth century — 4 Norden' — and is divided into Provinces, with as many
counties as were then in Ireland, having the names of the principal pro-
prietors or families resident in each district. 2. Trace from a MS. Map
of Irelande, painted on vellum and illuminated in the reign of Queen
Elizabeth. 3. Trace from a painted Map of Ireland, by Overdon and
Morden, London ; inscribed to James Duke of Ormond, with letter-press
inscriptions taken from Speed. 4. Trace from Ortelius Improved, or a
new Map of Ireland, wherein are inserted the principal families of Irish
and English extraction, who possessed that kingdom at the commence-
ment of the seventeenth century, by Charles O'Connor, Esq. 5. Trace
from another Map of Ireland, on a larger scale, printed in London, by
Thomas Price, Senex, and Maxwell, in 1711; inscribed to the Honour-
able Sir William Robinson, Knight. 6. Trace from a Map of the Pro-
vince of Ulster in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, painted on paper, with
this inscription, ' A True Description of the North Part of Irelande,
to wute, from Dordagh, northwarde, cominge to the Dure or Island of
Ackil, with all the Havens, Bares, Harbours, and Islands, Rocks, Sand,
... set in their course, height and distance, the principal rivers, in-
' Now preserved in the Royal Irish * Now preserved in the Royal Irish
Academy s collection of MSS. Academyfs Library.
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land cities, fortes, and abbies. 7. Trace of a Map from 'the County
Fermanaghe,' painted on paper, about the reign of James I. The follow-
ing Memorandum occurs on the back : — ' This Mappe, except M'Guire's
Country, called Fermanaghe, is altogether false,' 8. Trace from a printed
Map of * The Province of Connaught, with the Citie of Gal way described,'
by Speed, London, 1610; coloured, from his 'Theatre of Gr. Britain.'
9. Trace from a MS. Map of the Province of Connaught, on which the
counties, baronies, and parishes are marked; no date. This tracing is
taken from a map in the College Library, and out of the same volume as
the others. It includes the Co. Clare, as belonging to the province of
Connaught, and it excludes Leitrim and Longford. 10. Trace from a
large MS. Map of the Province of Connaught, painted on paper, and put
down on canvass, made from ' a view of the Countrie,' divided into coun-
ties and baronies, marking the principal towns, rivers, woods, mountains,
and other noted places. This map is not dated, but it appears to have been
made about the latter end of the reign of Queen Elizabeth (after the division
of the province into counties in 1585, by Sir John Perrott), or in the
beginning of the reign of James I. The following inscription appears on the
back — * Conaught and Thomond. £. Browne.' 11. Slego County. A
small map trace: no reference given. 12. The County of Slego; from the
engraved Map of the Down Survey, 1689- 13. The last trace only in-
cludes a part of Sligo county, and it seems to have been taken, as a rough
sketch, for the Ordnance Survey. The extracts in this volume are
taken from Archdall's ' Monasticon Hibernicum,' ' Annals of the Four
Masters,' ' Book of Lecan,' Colgan's * Trias Thaumaturga,' and c Acta
Sanctorum Hibernian,' McFirbis' 'Pedigrees,' 'Letters' of Mr. O'Connor,
of Ballanagare; O'Flaherty's ' Ogygia,' ' Life of St. Maodhog,' Records in
the Rolls Office.
" IV. The Grant from King Charles II., in Common Place Book, ST.,
has been already noticed in the second series of ' Journal,' vol. ii., at p.
100, note 2.
" V. The Volume of 4 to Letters, bound in the style of MSS. transferred
to the Royal Irish Academy, contains 465 written pages, with 12 pages
of Index prefixed. In it are included the following Letters, viz.: — John
O'Donovan writes from Sligo, July 3rd, 1836; do. July 4th; do. July 5th;
from the Heath House, July 7th; Myles J. O'Reilly, note of J. O'Donovan
appended ; John O'Donovan from Sligo, July 7th ; do. July 8th ; do. from
Kells, July 12; from Thomas O'Conor, Sligo, August 30th; do. Sept.
1st; from John O'Donovan, 21, Great Charles-street, Sept. 2nd; from
Thomas O'Conor, Sligo, Sept. 3rd; do. Sept. 4th; do. Grange, Sept. 5th;
from John O'Donovan, 21, Great Charles-street, Sept. 5th; do. Sept.
7th y from Thomas O'Conor, Sligo, Sept. 8th; from John O'Donovan, 21,
Great Charles-street, Sept. 9th; do. Sept. I0th; from P. O'Keefe, Boyle,
Sept. llth; from Thomas O'Conor, Sligo, Sept. 12th; do. Sept. 12th;
from P. O'Keefe, Boyle, Sept. 12th; from John O'Donovan, 21, Great
Charles-street, Sept. 14; from Thomas O'Conor, Riverstown, Sept. 15th;
from John O'Donovan, 21, Great Charles-street, Sept. 16th; do. Sept.
16th; from Thomas O'Conor, Sligo, Sept. 17th; from P. O'Keefe, Boyle,
Sept. 17th; from Thomas O'Conor, Sligo, Sept. 19th; from John
O'Donovan, 21, Great Charles-street, Sept. 20th ; do. no date; from
Thomas O'Conor, Ballina, Sept. 20th; from John O'Donovan, 21, Great
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Charles-street, Sept. 2 1st; from Thomas O'Conor, Ballina, Sept. 21st;
from John O'Donovan, 21, Great Charles-street, Sept. 22nd; from P.
v 11- . OIL.. . rv/~i - -D^u: — o 4. oo~ J .
from Thos. O'Conor, Collooney, Sept. 29th; do. from John O'Donovan, 21,
Great Charles-street, Sept. 27th; do. Sept. 30th; from Thos. O'Conor, Col-
loney, Sept. 30th; do. Tubbercurry, Oct. 1st; from P. O'Keefe, Ballymote,
Oct. 2nd; from Thos. O'Conor, Ballina, Oct.4th; do. Sligo, Oct. 5th; do.
Oct. 7th; fromdo.21, Great Charles-street, Oct. 10th; do. do. Oct. 13th;
a Dissertation received from P. O'Keefe, Oct. 14th, no address; notes from
John O'Donovan, 21, Great Charles-street, Oct. 13th; do. Oct. 17th; a
long and beautifully written letter from George Petrie, dated Rathcar-
rick, county of Sligo, August 12th, 1837. This is interspersed with
elegant ink sketches of many ancient monuments in this county. la
some of Mr. O'Donovan's letters, also, there are to be found rude drawings
of antiquities by the writer.
, *' VI. The Name-Books are 50 in number, as I find on counting
them. In shape, size, and plan they are similar to others of a like de-
nomination.
" VII. The Barony and Parish Names are found in a thin oblong 4to
volume, covered with pasteboards. This book was compiled in 1836. It
has an Index of 27 Authorities preceding, and they are taken from maps,
surveys, and records. It contains 50 leaves, on each of which Dr.
O'Donovan has settled the parish orthography in Irish, with the equiva-
lent meaning in English. He enters, also, many curious topographical
comments.
"VIII. The single volume of Memorandums is abound 4to of 118
pages. It contains curious notes and observations, sketches and map -traces.
It has seven columns of Index, on four pages preceding.
" IX. The folio bound volume of Index of Names on Ordnance Survey
Maps, for this county, contains 02 leaves of triple denominations on slips,
pasted on either side of each leaf.
'* X. The County Queries and Presentments are found in an unbound
small printed pamphlet of 72 pages. This tract refers only to the fiscal
business of Sligo county for the Summer Assizes of 1835.
41 XI. In the Detailed List of Memoir Papers for Sligo, I find a
Statistical Report of Emlaghfad, Ballymote, kept on shelf 5 in the Ord-
nance Survey Library Press. Again, on shelf 2, there is to be found
some miscellaneous matter relating to this county.
" There are no drawings of antiquities for this county, amongst the
separate Portfolio Sketches, preserved in the Royal Irish Academy.
14 The Catalogue of Topographical Collection for Eoscommon gives
the following list of records, viz. : — I. Inquisitions, 4 volumes, including
Leitrim and part of Mayo. Rough Index of Places to do.1 II. Letters,8
» Now preserved in the Library of the attached to these volumes, making their
Royal Irish Academy. The original contents available.
Rough Index has been used aa material » Now preserved in the Library of the
for compiling an improved Index, now Royal Irish Academy.
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2 volumes. III. Name Books, 87. IV. Barony and Parish Names,
1 volume. Y. Memorandums, 1 vol. VI. County Index of Names on
Ordnance Maps, 1 vol. VII. County Presentments, 1835 (one part).
VIII. Memoir Papers (see detailed list annexed). IX. Extracts, 2 vols.
(Rough Index of Places to Irish Part, not arranged).1
" I. These Inquisitions have been already described in the second series
of 'Journal,' vol. ii. at p. 103, note 2. They are now bound in three vo-
lumes, quarto, in the style adopted for MSS. transferred to the lloyal Irish
Academy. The volumes, lettered xxv. xxvi. in the former enumeration, are
now bound together in the first volume. The second volume comprises the
former vol. xxvii. The third volume comprises the former vol. xxviii. But,
in this latter instance, I find that there are only 159 written pages — in the
first instance set down at 241. However, the Rough Index, now pre-
served at the end, made up the remainder. In addition to this, there is
a General Alphabetical Index of 297 pages carefully compiled, and re-
ferring to the names in the three volumes of the Academy Collection,
with exact pagination.
" II. The First Volume of Roscommon Antiquarian Letters contains
298 unbound pages. In it are included the following letters, viz. : — D
H. Kelly, Esq., writes from Castlekelly, May 3 1st, 1837; do. July 3rd
John O'Donovan writes from Athlone, June 1st, 1837; do. June 1st
Dr. J. H. Todd writes from Trinity College, Dublin, June 7th, 1837
Dr. O'Donovan writes from Aughrahan Castle, June 7th, 1837 ; from
Castlekelly, June 9th; do. June 9th; do. June 12th; do. June 14th ; from
Ballinasloe, June 14th; do. June 16th; from Beal-atha-na-sluagh, June
18th ; from Ballinasloe, June 18th; from Athlone, June 20th ; do. June
22nd ; from Knockcroghery, June 23rd ; from Roscommon, June 25th;
do.June26th; do.June28th; do. June 29th; do. June 29th; do. June 30th;
do. June 30th, Friday night, half past twelve ; do. July 1st; do. July 1st ;
fromCastlereagh, July 3rd; do. July 4th; do. July 5th; do. July 7th; do.
July 8th; do. July 8th ; do. July 10th ; from Balanagare, July 1 1th; do.
July 14th; do. July 15th; from Boyle, July 16th; do. July 19th; do. July
21st; do. July 23rd; do. July 24th; do. July 27th ; from Elphin, July
27th; do. July 28th; do. July 30th ; Chi pmn, July 31st ; in all forty-
six letters. An Index of eleven pages precedes them. The second
volume contains 298 numbered pages, including maps and traces. In it
the following letters are found, viz. : John O'Donovan writes from
Elphin, August 1st, 1837; do. August 4th; do. August 6th ; Dr. J. H.
Todd writes from Trinity College, Dublin, August 7th ; J. O'Donovan
writes from Alfin, August 8th ; Elphin, August 9th; do. August 9th ;
Alfin, August 10th ; Elphin, August 10th ; Sunday, August 13th ;
Bellnambullia, or Stokestown, August 12th; Saturday; beal na mbuile,
Belnambullia, or Stokestown, August 16th; do. August 16th; do. August
17th; do. August 18th; do. August 19th ; Dr. Petrie writes a note to
Mr. Larcom, dated September 8th, 1837; John O'Donovan writes from
Athlone, August 24th ; T. Larcom writes a note 6th September, 1837 ;
1 Now preserved in the Library of the noticed as not arranged, has been used
Royal Irish Academy. The Rough In- and redistributed in the volumes of Ex-
dex of Places to Irish Part, which is tracts here mentioned.
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John O'Donovan writes from Athlone, September 8th ; from Taylor's
Hill near Galway, July 9th, 1839 ; from Athlone, August 26th, 1837;
do August 26th ; next follows a long letter ftom George Petrie, dated
21 Great Charles-street, September 4th ; another letter from the same
writer dated do. June 19th ; another note from the same writer, dated
do July 7th, with appended note of Thomas O'Connor, which is not
dated; then Dr. Petrie writes a note, dated July 20th; do. July 22nd; and
one note dated Boyle, Sunday morning. John O'Donovan has another
letter to Thomas A. Larcom, Esq., dated 21, Grept Charles-street, April
10th, 1838; in all, thirty one letters and notes./ An Index of nine pages
precedes these communications. Appended to this second volume, we
find the following Maps and Traces folded into it, viz : — 1. County Ros-
coinmon Map, from Down Survey. 2. Ortelius Improved. 3. Merca-
tor's Maps of Leath Chuin. 4. An old Map of Connaught and Thomond.
5. Trace of Inchclerawn or Quaker's Island, showing the situation of the
old churches. These MS. volumes are quarto, and bound in the style of
MSS. transferred to the Royal Irish Academy.
" III. Name Books are in number 87, as I find on counting them. In
shape and subject matter, they are similar to others of the series, already
described.
"IV. The Barony and Parish Names are found in a thin quarto volume,
covered with thick pasteboard. It contains sixty-two numbered pages,
each page numbered only on one side of the leaf. It has a list of twenty-
seven authorities preceding. They are taken from Maps, Surveys, and
printed Records. Dr. O'Donovan has settled the orthography of the
Parish Names in Irish, and in their English equivalents. There are,
also, many of his valuable topographical comments on nearly every
page.
" V. The Memorandums are in one bound quarto volume of fragmen-
tary notes, observations, sketches of monuments, and map-tracings. This
MS. has 237 numbered pages, of varied topographical information. It
has, also, a prefixed Index of seventeen pages, mostly double-columns
of denominations.
" VI. The County Index of Names on Ordnance Maps is contained in
one folio bound volume. It contains eighty-one leaves, with slips of
triple denominations, pasted on both sides of each leaf.
"VII. The County Presentments of 1835 are found in a small printed
pamphlet having but a few pages, only referring to Ballintobber and Boyle
Baronies, solely relating to Grand Jury Presentments and Estimates for
County Fiscal business. The first pages, to page sixty-one, are missing.
" VIII. When referred to the Detailed List annexed of miscellanies
regarding Roscommon County, whatever relates to it will be found on
shelf 2 of the Press, within the Irish Ordnance Survey Library.
" IX. The First Volume of Extracts contains 547 written pages of
Excerpts. The Second Volume contains 467 written pages of Excerpts.
These Extracts are taken from Colgan's ' Acta Sanctorum Hibernise,' and
' Trias Thaumaturga;' ' Memoirs' of Charles O'Conor ; Lanigan's 4 Eccle-
siastical History of Ireland ;' ' Annals of Four Masters ;' ' Irish Calen-
dar ;" Monasticon Hibernicum ;' 'M'Firbis;' • Book of Lecan ;' 'Keating;'
'O'Clery MSS. ;' M'Keogh's 'Account of Roscommon ;' 'Lives of Irish
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Saints,' Marsh's Library; 'Begistry of Clonmacnoise' ; * Annals of Boyle';
4 Liber Regalis Visitations' ; ' Pedigree of O'Kelly' from < Office of Ulster
King-at-Arms' ; O'Flaherty's ' Ogygia' ; 'Annals of Kilronan' ; De
Burgo's 4 Hibernia Dominicana' ; O'Sullivan Beare ; ' Dublin Inquisi-
tion* ; with many detached notes and papers.1
" There are no Portfolio Sketches of Antiquities for this county pre-
served in the Eoyal Irish Academy."
The following papers were submitted to the Members: —
TOPOGRAPHICAL AND HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS OF
THE COUNTY AND CITY OF KILKENNY.
BY JOHN HOGAN.
Continued from Vol. F., new series, p. 251.
As we approached the close of the last section of our illustration
of the topography of Kilkenny, the united testimony of the many
surviving vestiges of its primitive civilization constrained us to
acknowledge the site of our present city as the local representative
of the ancient mansion place of the kings of Osraigh. This con-
clusion, though the inevitable result of our researches on that oc-
casion, stands, in antagonism with the views of some of our most
esteemed authorities2 on local antiquarian lore, which throws on us
'Six pages of Index are affixed for (for centuries the residence of the kings
both volumes. of Ossory) derived its origin in the time
2 Esteemed authorities. — Bishop Roth of Henry II., from a few tenants from
was the first who denied to Kilkenny Aghabo, and as many English and Fle-
the honour of a pre-English existence. mish adventurers, must have been in-
Roth is much extolled by his biographers fluenced by the same predilections for his
beyond the sea which shaped
and reviewers as an adept in ecclesiasti- relatives
cal learning, and as an eminent theolo- and determined the public policy of 'his
gian and canonist ; yet he appears to life. In his writings Roth does not con--
hold but an inferior position in Irish ceal his English proclivities, and dur-
historical literature amongst the nu- ing the eventful period of the Catholic
merous writers of the seventeenth cen- Confederation, in the deliberations and
tury. His account of the original esta- acts of which he played so important
blishment of Kilkenny is as fanciful as a part, he systematically sided with the
it is untenable, and though admirable as Catholics of English descent in opposi-
a well-drawn picture, it never can be tion to the views of the native Irish of
accepted as of historical authority, be- the same creed. Roth was much fasci-
ing much more remarkable for its terse nated by the natural as well as the
and graphic embellishments than for artistic beauties of his native city, but
archaic consistency, or original re- he is equally in admiration of the people
search. The Irish scholar of his day and institutions of England, and as of
who could stand amidst the then visible old "Nothing good can come from
remains of the primitive "Cill-Cain- Nazareth," so with Roth, by an opposite
nigh," and assert that this ancient city impulse, " all that was good should come
Q
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the responsibility of sustaining that proposition by evidence more
direct than that already adduced in its support. I he antiquities
of the city of Kilkenny, for which I claim a pre-Enghsh origin,
may be enumerated under the five following heads, viz. :—
The remains of its ancient roadways.
The site of its ancient castle.
Its cloichteach or round tower.
The sites of its ancient churches, and
Its cathedral.
The dun, or fortress, that occupied the site of the present castle,
before the English invasion, I hold to have been the residence of
the kings of Osraigh. The round towers of this city and county,
from the many circumstances which connect their respective sites
with the public deeds of Cearbhall Mac Dunghal appear to have
been erected by that distinguished chieftain. The church of St.
Cainneach I accept as the foundation of that saint himself. Three
of the other ancient churches as the foundations of Donnchadh
Mac Kellach. By the Cathedral,1 I design to imply the seat of the
from England;" 'and this "wish being
father to the thought," suggested to him
the very puerile romance, " that three
diverse nations who finally coalesced in
one gave their aid to found the city
of Kilkenny first," writes our author :
" Felix O'Dullany betook himself to this
place with his husbandmen and tenants,
and laid the foundation of the church
as of the burgh," i. e. founded both the
church and the borough of Irishtown ;
secondly, the Earl Marschall and his re-
tainers founded the castle and burgh of
Kilkenny ; and thirdly, a colony of Fle-
mings settled here, and was gradually
absorbed by the " Celts and Saxons,"
and then, continues the bishop : " from
these three original nations, fused into
one common people with a certain graft-
ing and mingling of race by marriage,
and the procreation of children, . .sprung
that inhabitation which we [now] see."
This is all very beautiful, but it pos-
sesses more of the elegance of poetry
than of the stern realities of fact. If
the site of our present city was uninha-
bited until the arrival of the " three
tribes," what was the object of having
it furnished with seven stone churches ?
Who built them, and for what purpose?
More than a century before Felix O'Dul-
lany or his tenants from Aghabo could
have arrived here, we read in the Irish
"Annals" "A.D. 1085, Ceal-Cainnigh
was for the most part burned;" and
more than thirty years before O'Dullany
was raised to the episcopacy of Ossory,
"The Four Masters" record: "A.D.
1146, Gillaphadraig, Lord of Osraighe,
was killed by the O'Braenains in the mid-
dle ofCill-Cainnigh." I am not going to
discuss this point here, and I give these
cases only to show that this story is little
more than pure fiction. Roth appears
to have been well versed in the eccle-
siastical statistics of his time, and to
have had access to rare and valuable
muniments relative to the history of the
country subsequent to the Anglo-Nor-
man Invasion ; but he does not appear
to have had any taste for the pre-Eng-
lish history of Ireland. It may be safely
asserted that, in this department he
had neither the opportunities nor the
erudition of Keating, Ware, Ussher,
Lynch, O'Flaherty, Colgan, O'Clery,
&c., &c., and therefore we are justified
in demurring to his dictum respecting
the origin of Kilkenny, standing as that
dictum does, in antagonism with the com-
bined testimony of written and monu-
mental history. In the " Transactions,"
vol. ii., p. 324, new series, will be found
Roth's interesting, but imaginative nar-
rative of the original establishment of
Kilkenny. In the " History, Antiquities,
&c., of the Cathedral Church of St. Ca-
nice" c. ii., p. 22, will also be found an-
other beautiful fragment of his writings.
1 Cathedral. — Archbishop Ussher, and
after him, and on his authority, Dr. La-
nigan and the Rev. James Graves, as-
Ill
diocesan chapter and episcopacy, not the existing Church of St.
Canice. The illustration of these several propositions is invested
with no small degree of interest, for those at least who feel con-
cerned for the native nobility of this ancient town ; yet it must be
conceded that the historical materials requisite to establish them
are indeed scarce and meagre ; the unsparing hand of time, the
social transitions consequent on the establishment here of English
institutions, combined with the destructive effects of centuries of
civil and religious warfare, have all but obliterated from the muni-
ments of our national archives the existence of the ancient city of
Osraigh ; yet its prominent outlines are still traceable, and the sur-
viving fragments of its primitive institutions are most authentic
vouchers for its ante-Norman origin. The scanty memorials pre-
served of the dynasts of Osraigh incidentally open many interesting
vistas, in which we obtain new views of the extent and configuration
of the ancient Cill-Gainnigh^ and which serve to explain the cause
and design of much of its present peculiar topography. In this
essay we propose to glean from the pages of all accessible sources
of authority such memoirs as exist of the life and times of each of
the kings of Osraigh, from the accession of Cearbhall Mac Dunghal
to the English Invasion. We shall occasionally saunter amidst the
mouldering remains of their princely mansion place, and see if we
cannot discover in the ruins of its venerable institutions some remi-
niscence of that ancient city, once the seat of royalty, and the centre
of authority in this historic principality, and this introduces us to
the next section of our inquiry, namely —
THE HISTORY AND SUCCESSION OF THE KINGS OF OSRAIGH. —
The Ossorians are descended from Conla, son of Bresal Brec, son
of Crimthann Qosgrach, King of Ireland, A.M. 3841. "Bresal
was father of Fergus, the sailor, from whom are descended the
kings of Leinster and of Conla, the progenitor of the Ossorians,
sert that at the period of Felix O'Dul- Gillaphadraig from the estates and
lany's death, Achabo was the site of the mansion of his ancestors, and who, re-
cathedral of Ossory ; and in order to tiring with this king to the northern
avoid even an apparent collision with districts of the diocese, fixed his cathe-
such high and esteemed authorities, it dral, under the guardianship of this
is necessary to anticipate here one of the dynast, at Aghabo, where, safe from de-
points to be discussed in the third sec- secration, it continued till O'Dullany's
tion of this essay, viz., that we have ma- death ; but during his episcopacy the
terials to prove that Kilkenny had been English colony was being securely and
for some period previous to the Anglo- permanently established in southern
Norman Invasion the seat of the dio- Ossory, and through English influence
cesan chapter and episcopacy, until, in Rufus, his successor, was promoted to
consequence of the disturbance of the be its '« first English bishop." On the
times, the cathedral was removed to same ground that justified its removal,
Aghabo, apparently by Donald O'Fo- the cathedral was again transferred
garta,vwho was Bishop of Ossory at the from the " Ville of Achbo" to the " citie
period of the expulsion of Donald Mac of Kilkenny."
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from whom the family of the Fitzpatricks, Barons of Upper Ossory,
derive their genealogy."1 Two pedigrees of the Ossorian family
are published— one by Keating,2 the other by O'Donovan.3 Some
discrepancy exists between them, yet probably few ancient dynas-
ties of Europe present a more unbroken succession for near two
thousand years than does the genealogical table of the royal house
of Osraigh. Of the kings of Ossory down to the ninth century,
Aenghus3 alone stands out from the list as a character of distinc-
tion.^ Of his successors for eight hundred years few memorials are
preserved in the Irish Annals, or other authority accessible to me,
beyond the record of their names and obituaries, a transcript of
which could in no degree contribute to the object of this essay.
In the early part of the ninth century, the invasion of the Danes
aroused into activity the dormant energies of chiefs and toparchs,
and then the dynasts of Osraigh, smarting under the lash of the in-
vaders, rise with the circumstances of the times, and distinguish
themselves henceforward in the general struggle for native free-
dom, and in this epoch their history opens.
At the year 823, we read in the Irish Annals, " a victory was
gained by the foreigners over the Osraighi." This is the earliest
notice we have of any attack by the Danes on the kingdom of
Osraigh. In the year 819, they plundered Edar, now Howth, near
Dublin, whence " they carried off a great prey of women." In the
same year they plundered Beg-Eire, now Begery, a small island in
Wexford harbour. The next year (820), we trace them at Cork
and other southern stations, all of which clearly indicate their line
of attack to have been down the eastern sea board of Ireland,
towards which they sallied forth from the Hebrides, their original
depot in the British islands ; hence it is clear that they must have
effected a settlement in Waterfbrd about the year 820, whence
there cannot be a doubt that their first attack on Osraigh in 823
resulted from the debarkation of their fleet, then anchored in the
bay of " Port Largie," the original name of Waterford, and from
which they subsequently wasted and harassed the southern tribe
lands of Osraigh. In the year 836 they burned the churches of
Kil-Finnche, which, according to a former inquiry, appears to have
occupied the site, if it be not the present church of Sheepstown,
near Knock topher, and St. Laichtains, the predecessor of the fine
'"Ogygia," vol. ii., p. 140, Hely's 3 O'Donovan's genealogical table of
edition, Dublin, 1793. the Ossorians will be found in the form
* Keating's " Pedigree of the Fitzpa- of a supplement to the first vol. of the
tricks, Kings of Ossory," will be found Society's "Transactions" for the year
at the close of the second volume of his 1850. In the following papers the ge-
History of Ireland ; the copy here used nealogy of the Four Masters is preferred
is the Dublin edition, 1809, vol. ii., to that of either Keating or O'Dono-
p. 438, et seq. Tan.
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old church of Freshford. Dunghal was King of Osraigh during the
period of these assaults on his kingdom, and from the results it would
seem that he was but ill qualified to hold his own against the ad-
vances of those bold adventurers. If, however, he himself was not
equal to the emergency, he bequeathed to his son and successor a
spirit of bravery which enabled him to cope with the difficulties,
and rendered him one of the most distinguished heroes of his age.
King Dunghal was descended in the twenty-first degree1 from
Aenghus Osraigh, the founder of the kingdom ; he was the son
of Fearghal, whom he succeeded in the year 797 ; he died in 841.
We read of three of his children who survived him, namely, Mael-
tuile, who died Abbot of Beanchoir (Bangor), A. D. 884 ; Lann,
queen of Mealseachlainn, orMalachy, King of Meath, at the period
of his marriage, but subsequently monarch of the whole island ;
and Cearbhall, or Carroll, who succeeded him in the kingdom of
Osraigh in the year 841, and in whom the family rose into dis-
tinction, and its members became recognized as dynasts of authority
amongst the potentates of the nation. The three great septs or
families which furnished kings to the principality of Osraigh, for
about three hundred years before the Anglo-Norman Invasion, are
known by the denominations of the clann Cearbhall, the clann
Donnchadh, and the Mac Gillaphadriag. The last was but a pa-
tronymick assumed by the clann Donnchadh as a family title.
1 Twenty-first degree — According to
Keating's pedigree there are but eighteen
descents from Aenghus to Dunghal.
O'Donovan makes it twenty-one: neither
can be correct, as there must necessarily
elapse from the death of Aenghus, to-
wards the close of the first century, to
that of Dunghal, in 841, about 750
years. Keating's eighteen descents, at
thirty years to each generation, make
540 years; and O'Donovan's twenty-one
will amount only to 630 years. Unfor-
tunately \ve have not the Four Mas-
ters to guide us so far back in the af-
fairs of Ossory as the period in which
Aenghus lived. The earliest notice by
those annalists of a king of Ossory is
Fearadagh, the son of Duach, and the
benefactor of St. Cainneach ; but even
here an irreconcileable discrepancy oc-
curs between O'Donovan's pedigree and
that of the Four Masters : the latter
make Feredach the son of Duach ;
O'Donovan and Keating make him the
son of Conall, and thus pass over two
generations. But on inquiry it appears
that Feredach could not have been the
son of either Duach or Connall. St.
Ciaran, of Saigher, was the grandson of
Duach, and in his life we read that,
when St. Patrick entered the city of
Cashel, " a descendant of Duach, of the
territory of Ossory," killed his horse,
for which St. Ciaran had to interpose his
authority to save his own relative from
death. This event occurred about the
year 450, at which time Duach must
have been one hundred years dead. How
then could Feredach, who was living
one hundred and thirty years later, have
been his son ? St. Ciaran was the tenth
in descent from Aenghus Osraigh ; in
him the suscession was broken, and af-
ter him there is a genealogical blank of
about one hundred years. Feredach is
the next King of Ossory named ; he died
in A. D. 582, leaving between himself
and St. Kyran a hiatus of about one
hundred and twenty years, without a
single link to connect them. From Fe-
redach the genealogical chain is nearly
correct. In those papers the genealogy
of the Four Masters will be strictly ad-
hered to.
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The relation of the three to, and their descent from, each other will
appear from a glance at the following table, compiled from the
" Annals of the Four Masters" : —
Cearbhall son of Dunghal, sue. A. D. 841, founder of the clann Cearbhall.
Diarmaid, , Cearbhall, 885 ; he was deposed.
Ceallach,
Diarmaid,
Donnchadh,
Gillaphadraig,
Cearbhall,
Cearbhall,
Ceallach,
Donnchadb,
900, killed at the battle of Bealach-
mughna.
908, restored on the death of Ceallach.
927, founder of the clann Donnchadh.
974, from whom the Mac Gillaphadraig.
We shall now proceed to furnish a short memoir of each of the
clann Cearbhall dynasts, after which we shall present a few por-
traits from the clann Donnchadh, better known as the Mac Gilla-
phadraig of Osraigh.
CEARBHALL MAC DUNGHAL.
The accession of Cearbhall, or Carroll, to the government of Os-
raigh is identified with the most galling period of the Danish rule in
Ireland. It does not come within my design to burthen these pages
with a recital of events in connexion with this epoch, which more
immediately belong to the general history of the country. It will
suffice for our purpose to state, that the Danes were complete masters
of the island in the year 845, when their notorious leader Tuirgis, or
Turgesius, usurped the supreme monarchy of the nation, and is
accordingly recognized in the Annals of the period as "King of
Ireland." At this same period Maelseachlainn, or Malachy, was
King of Meath, and the usurper erected his "castellum" in the
vicinity of Malachy's mansion. The two potentates became thus
acquainted, and an intimate degree of familiarity is recorded to
have existed between them. It has been already stated that Lann,
the wife of Malachy, was daughter to Dunghal, and consequently
sister to Cearbhall, or Carroll, the then King of Osraigh. The
daughter of this lady, named Melcha, was then young, and has
been much celebrated for the grace and beauty of her person, as
well as for her elegant and accomplished manners. Turgesius be-
ing accustomed to visit Malachy at his mansion, became captivated
by the charms of his daughter, and being, as he supposed, in a posi-
tion to demand the possession of her person, submitted to Malachy
the infamous proposal. The celebrated stratagem by which the
King of Meath entrapped the licentious barbarian is too well known
to be given here in detail ; it will suffice to state that Malachy con-
sented to deliver his daughter up to the usurper on the condition
that she should be accompanied to his palace on the appointed day
f teen ladies of her own age, who should act towards her in the
capacity of maids of honour, and who were to be selected from the
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most beautiful damsels of his kingdom ; and this condition being
willingly accepted, fifteen daring and chivalrous youths, said to
have been beardless, attired in female costume, conveyed the young
heroine to the palace of the Dane, and at the moment of his ex-
pected enjoyment seized himself, slew the libertines by whom he
was surrounded, bound him in chains, and carried him alive to the
feet of Malachy, by whose orders he was subsequently thrown,
bound as he was taken, into Lough-Owel, near Mullingar. I in-
troduce this scrap of historic romance here because it appears more
than probable that young Cearbhall of Osraigh may have formed
one of the gallant cavaliers who on this occasion so nobly preserved
the honour of his sister's child ; he died in the year 885 ; and if we
allow him an age of about sixty years at the time of his death, he
would be about twenty at the era of this incident ; indeed we can
well conceive the alacrity with which he undertook the leadership
in this bold adventure, in the results of which were involved the
honour of his niece and the liberty of his country ; nor is it intrud-
ing too much on the province of conjecture to assume that the
heroic achievements which characterized his future career received
here their starting impulse, and that the enthusiasm and genius of
his character originated in the success of this brilliant and romantic
exploit.
A general massacre of the Danes is recorded to have followed
the death of Turgesius : most of those that escaped fled towards
the sea coast towns, and ultimately contrived to concentrate their
strength, and to fortify their position in Dublin, where, being con-
stantly supplied by fresh arrivals, they soon again became formida-
ble, and occasionally sallied out from their stronghold and again
renewed their hostilities on the natives. Two years after the death
of Turgesius, in one of those plundering excursions, they entered
the kingdom of Osraigh, and here for the first time we are intro-
duced to Cearbhall Mac Dunghal in the Irish Annals. The fol-
lowing is the concise report of his encounter with the Danes :
"A.D. 845, A slaughter made of the foreigners of Ath-cliath
(Dublin), at Carn-Brammit by Cearbhall Mac Dunghal, Lord of
Osraigh, where twelve hundred of them were slain." A earn was
a heap of uncemented stones, raised as a sepulchral monument over
the grave of a fallen chief ; Carn-Brammit means the grave of Bram-
mit. A very intelligent native of the place has informed me that
the Irish form of the present word Bramblestown is Bally-Bram-
min, that is the town of Brammin, obviously a modification of the
word Brammit. Contiguous to Bramblestown is situated the very
primitive hamlet called Carn, which is beyond dispute the resting-
place of the chieftain from whom Bramblestown has derived its
name ; for as Bally-Brammin is the town of Brammin, so Carn
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Brnmmit is the grave of the same personage, and this enables us
to identify the well known townland of Cam, most probably the
very bally or hamlet of that name as the scene of the sanguinary
conflict. The situation of Cam would also point it out as the scene
of the action, being just inside of Bealach Gabhran, through which
the Danes of Dublin would enter Osraigh from their raid through
Leinster. The engagement seems to have been sharp, bloody,
and decisive, twelve hundred of the foreigners being slain by the
arms of Cearbhall Mac Dunghal and the tribesmen of Osraigh.
In the year 846, "A defeat was given by Echthighern and the
Leinstermen to the Osraighi at Uachtar-garadha" On this entry
O' Donovan observes in the margin " Uachtar-garadha, i. e. Upper
garden is probably the place in the county of Kilkenny now called
by the synonymous name of Uachtar-Achaid, i. e. Upper field, An-
glice Oughteraghy." This, however, he doubts himself, for he re-
fers the reader to his note under the year 876, at which date the fol-
lowing entry occurs in the " Annals": " A battle was fought be-
tween the Osraighi and the Leinstermen at Uachtar-dara, when
Bolgodhar, son of Maelciere, was killed." " This Uachtar-dara,"
continues O'Donovan, " is, most probably, Outrath near Kilkenny."
There are cogent reasons for concluding that Outrath is the place
referred to. In an Inquisition taken at "The Sessions house,
Gowran, 17 January, 1632," Nic. Ley, of the city of Waterford,
Alderman, was found seised, amongst other estates, of certain lands
near Ballyneleynagh "of 60 acres, arable and furze and 1 toft in
Foulkestowne, in the tenement of Oghteraghie" These were the
then denominations of the three townlands now known as Bally-
nalina, Foulkstown, and Outrath, and this last was then recognized
as Oughteraghi, precisely synonymous with Oughteraghy, the
Anglicised form of Uachter-garadha and Uachter-dara, which fully
sustains the conjecture of O'Donovan, that Outrath was the place
referred to in both entries. The well-known village of Outrath is
situated about two Irish miles south of Kilkenny ; it is now far
removed from every public thoroughfare, but it still retains many
traces of a gone-by importance : around the now comfortable hamlet
hangs the air of a once hospitable bailli, or Celtic villa. The grand
prospect obtained from its old cemetery, the ruined walls of its pa-
rochial church, the quaint aspect of the fine Elizabethan mansion
occupied by the present proprietor, force on an observer the im-
pression that years since and this was the centre of stirring scenes,
and social enjoyment.
The modern word Outrath is evidently formed of Outeraghi,
contracted into " Ought," and prefixed to " rath" (a fine one of
which still exists there), thus making Oughtrath, or Outrath,
Oughteraghi-rath, or more properly Rath-oughteraghi would be
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translated " Upper Rath," and was apparently so denominated
from its relative situation with another locality of a similar title ;
and what is singularly interesting here is, that the two well-
known townlands of Outrath and Highrath, though situated at
opposite sides of the River Nore, were formerly connected by a
road now existing only in isolated sections, but still traceable in
the topographical outlines between the two localities. The ob-
scure bosheen that now leads from the Waterford road by the
churchyard of Outrath ends in Mr. Walshe's farmyard ; but an
inspection of the place itself, or of the Townland Survey (sheet
19), will convince an inquirer that it formerly ran through R,ag-
getsland into Warrington, through the centre of which its track
is plainly marked down to the Bennetsbridge road, and thence
down to Maddoxtown Mills, where it forded the River Nore at
Mr. Colles's Marble Works, and thence ran direct to the castle of
" Highrath," from which it now leads us over the Irish South-
Eastern Railway, "at which point it runs into the high road to
Dublin1 about two and a quarter miles east of Kilkenny. Most
1 The high-road to Dublin. — The pre-
sent Dublin road is not, as is generally
supposed, a new road ,• an ancient path-
way nearly identical with the present line
ran from the ford over the River Barrow,
at Leighlinbridge, by Shankill Church
(where its course through that demesne
is still called the "coach road") through
the village of Garryduff to Highrath
Castle, and thence over the Nore to
Outrath, as stated above. When the
course of this read over the Nore was
interrupted by the construction of the
mill weir at Maddoxtown, its conti-
nuation by Highrath Castle became
useless, save as a private approach to
that ancient mansion place. About this
period, which appears to have been co-
eval with the first establishment of a
mill at Maddoxtown, the portion of this
road from the railway crossing at High-
rath down by Aughmalogue, must have
been opened as an approach by which
the ancient road from Leinster was now,
for the first time, conducted into the
city of Kilkenny, as will be obvious from
an inspection of the Townland Survey
Sheet 19, and on which the direct course
of this road is distinctly traceable by
Highrath Castle to Maddoxtown mill
weir, and thence through the townland
of Warrington to Outrath. It is also to
be observed that this road from Highrath
to the village of Garryduff forms nearly
the whole way the common boundary of
the townlands at each side, from which
it is to be inferred that the road ran here
before the townlands were formed ; but
from Highrath to Kilkenny this road
intersects the townlands and fields ; the
configuration of the latter remain at
each side just as before this road was
cut through them. Fortunately we are
enabled to determine the precise date of
the opening of this highway in its pre-
sent form. In the year 1731, an Act
was passed in the Irish Parliament, en-
titled "An ACT for Repairing the
ROAD leading from the Town of Kil-
cullen, in the County of Kildare, to the
City of Kilkenny."— Vide 5 George II.,
c. 18. The preamble of the Act sets
forth: " Whereas, the High- Way, or
Road leading from the Town of Kilcullen
in the County of Kildare, through the
Towns of Castledermoit, Catherlough,
Laughlin-Bridge, and from thence to
the City of Kilkenny, by reason of the
several Hollow Ways, and of the many
and Heavy Carriages frequently pass-
ing through the same, are become so
Ruinous and Bad, That in Winter season
Many Parts thereof are Impassable for
Waggons, Carts, Carrs, and Carriages,
and Very Dangerous for Travellers, and
cannot by the Ordinary Course ap-
pointed by the Laws and Statutes of
this Realm, be effectually Mended and
Kept in Good Repair." The Act next
proceeds to state, in the usual extrava-
gance of legal verbosity, " That for
the better Surveying, Ordering, Amend-
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adult citizens are acquainted with the local peculiarity of the railway
" crossing" at Highrath ; an inspection of the locality, or a glance at
the Townland Survey (sheet 20), will satisfy an observer that the
ing, and Keeping in Repair the said
liigh-Way or Road," one hundred and
ninety Peers and Gentlemen " are here-
by Nominated and Appointed Trustees
of the said Roads, and the Survivors of
them (i. e. of the Trustees). That they,
or any Five or more of them, or such
person or persons as they, or any five
or more of them, shall Authorise and
Appoint, shall and may Erect, or Cause
to be Erected, One or More Gate or
Gates, Turn-Pike or Turn-Pikes, in,
upon, or across any Part or Parts of
the said High-ways or Roads, and also
a Toll-House or Toll-Houses, and there
shall Receive and Take the Tolls and Du-
ties following, before any Horse, Mare,
or Gelding, Ass or Mule, Cattle, Coach,
Berlin Chariot, Calash, Chaise, Chair,
Waggon, Wain-Cart, Carr or other Car-
riage, shall be permitted to pass through
the same." As this Act formed the
Charter upon which the Turnpike sys-
tem was first introduced into the county
of Kilkenny, and as the system is now
completely superseded by the Grand
Jury presentment system, the " bill of
fare" prescribed by the Act may be
worthy of publication, viz: —
" For every Coach, Berlin, Chariot,
Calash, Chaise, or Chair drawn by Six
Horses or More, the sum of One Shil-
ling. And for every Coach, Berlin, &c.,
drawn by any less Number of Horses
than Six, and more than Two, the Sum
of Eiijht Pence. And for every Coach,
Berlin, &c., drawn by Two Horses only,
the Sum of Six Pence. And for every
Chaise or Chair drawn by one Horse,
the Sum of Three Pence. For every Wag-
gon, Wain-Cart, Carr or other Car-
riage with four Wheels, the Sum of
Eight Pence. For every Wain-Cart,
Carr or other Carriage with Two
Wheels having more than One Horse,
Mare, or Gelding, Ass or Mule, whereon
One or More Persons shall Ride, One
Penny. For every Horse, Mare, Gelding,
Ass, or Mule, Laden or Un- Laden, and
not Drawing nor having any Person
Riding thereon, One Half- Penny. For
e?ery Drove of Oxen or Neat Cattle, the
Sum of Ten Pence per Score, and so
on in proportion for any Greater or Les-
ser Number. For every Drove of Calves,
Hoggs, Sheep, Lambs, the Sum of Five
Pence per Score, and so on in propor-
tion for any Greater or Lesser Number,
which said respective Sum and Sums of
Money shall be Demanded and Taken
in the Name of, or as a Toll or Duty,"
&c., &c.
This Act was passed in the year 1731,
and the object of it was immediately en-
trusted for execution to William Colles,
great grandfather to the present A.
Colles, Esq., of Millmount. The works
must have been carried on with spirit,
for the Dublin road appears to have
been at least fit for travelling by the
year 1737, as would appear from the
following extract of an advertisement
in an old Dublin newspaper named
" Pue's Occurrences," No. 8, January
1737-8: — " John Walsh, who keeps the
Kilkenny Stage Coach gives notice that
he will set out from Dublin and Kil-
kenny precisely at 7 O'C. in the morn-
ing, on every Monday and Thursday
during the Summer, and run through in
two days (accidents excepted). Twenty
pound weight of luggage will be al-
lowed to every person, and one penny
per pound to be paid for all weight
over." (See this advertisement in full,
" Transactions," vol. iii., p. 134, new
series). The adventures and perils of a
journey to Dublin about this period were
vividly preserved, in local traditions
and suburban gossiping down to the
middle of the present century. There
are persons still living who tell you that
they remember the time when, before a
man ventured on his journey to the me-
tropolis, amongst other preliminaries,
he made his will and closed his establish-
ment, affixing the following advertise-
ment to the exterior of his shop door :
" Gone to Dublin to buy Goods." John
Walshe's stage coach mentioned in the
advertisement appears to have been
identical with that denominated the
"Fly Dilligence" which started from
the sign of the «• Cross Keys," in the
high street of Kilkenny, and was a
vehicle of some celebrity, being the
only manner of conveyance between
Dublin and Kilkenny during the latter
half of the past century. The following
extracts from the pen of John Banim
furnish a few interesting pictures of
the machinery of the Diligence, as
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present high road from that point by Lyrath and Aughmalogue into
Kilkenny is a comparatively modern construction, and that the
great public road from Garryduff by Freestone-hill, and the chapel
well as of the times in which it moved: —
" In those days it was thought no waste
of time, or want of energy in passengers,
proprietors, horses, or a carriage ma-
chinery if the ponderous Diligence ac-
complished a Journey of Sixty Irish
Miles to or from the Metropolis in forty
hours after its sedate departure from
the starting point. In those good old
times weeks were allotted to due pre-
paration for such a journey even by the
Diligence, apprehending a lack of ac-
commodation in houses of entertainment
upon the road, perhaps a lack of houses
of entertainment themselves, the pru-
dent man victuelled his capacious sad-
dlebags with a week's provisions at
least, paid his debts, made his will, par-
took of religious comforts, and in various
other ways nerved his manly mind for
his perilous adventure. Days before his
departure a tender gloom shaded his
domestic circle. Upon the doomed morn-
ing itself not only all the members of
the family, but a crowd of friends be-
sides, escorted him to the side of the
awful machine, and there, tearful and
boding embraces were interchanged."
The scene on the return of the Diligence
from Dublin is thus graphically sketched:
" In the reign of George the Second (the
period of Walsh's Stage Coach), upon
a hill outside the town (i. e. Fennel's
hill, now 'Altamount), many persons
were assembled as usual, hoping to catch
along the distant road a sight of what
was called by excellence the Fly Dili-
gence. It was late on a winter's even-
ing, but sufficient light still remained
for the purpose. They had been assem-
bled since before three o'clock, and had
now strained their eyes abroad more
than an hour, but without a promise of
the expected object." The group now
descend the hill and return to the city in
despair, and it was not till the following
evening that the Diligence arrived in
town ; its entrance and movements
through the streets are thus depicted: "At
length, however, appeared an avaunt-
couriere in the person of the town fool,
a half-clad poor creature who had been
born silly, and he running and jumping
towards the ' Cross Keys,' and flourish-
ing a stick over his head, kept crying
out ' we have her at home at last ! here
she is ! our own darling Dilly!' Presently
round the abrupt turn in the street (the
corner of the Parade), some score mon-
grels came in view, and while their
barking grew shriller, what had be-
fore been a dismal rumble now changed
into a stunning, crashing noise, and
finally, the windows dancing, and the
very foundations of the houses of the
street quailing as it passed the pon-
derous Fly Diligence filled the eyes of
the admirers. Two of the helpers, who
formed part of the company on the hill,
trotted on bareheaded before the horses.
Ropes of hemp or hay, indifferently, with
a small remnant of leathern harness,
attached them to each other, and to the
ark-like building ; they barely moved
along, their jaded and nerveless trot
could not be rated at more than three
or four miles an hour. The supreme
driver, who was enthroned in the huge
box-seat, told how much he was satisfied
with the unusual spirit of this approach
to the Cross Keys by many a lash at
the poor beasts ; but every human thing
must have an end, and the Fly Diligence
at length stopped at the door of the
Cross Keys, amid the renewed cheers
and barkings of the brats and curs, and
the unlimited ecstacies of the town fool.
The expectant towns-people gathered
round, vociferously demanding to know
if their friends were inside, or else un-
der the awning on the top made of sacks
spread over hoops. On the highly or-
namented side of the Diligence were
depicted the Cross Keys to life, and
under them the names of the public
vehicle and its proprietors, together
with ' Latin itself,' in yellow letters
on a waving blue ribbon, to this effect :
' Paratus ad Arma.'" In juxta-position
with the Fly Diligence and its times,
the writer thus draws this complimen-
tary sketch of the superior travelling
conveniences of his own days (1825):
" Old Irish people of the present day,
while tottering, supported by their
sticks, along the suburban roads of their
native towns, may be-seen to hurry up a
convenient green lane, or, if that is not
at hand, place their shoulders against
the hedge or wall of the highway, in
order to allow deferential scope to the
career of the stage or mail coach heard
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of Pit, formerly did not enter Kilkenny, but ran direct to Highrath
Castle, thence descended to Maddoxtown, forded the river,1 and by
the line already indicated ran on to Outrath, thence by Inchiholo-
ghan, Dama, Goldenfield, Ballinamara, and Tubbridbritan, into
Munster. A doubt can scarcely be entertained that this was the
line of route by which Muircheartach Mac Neil and his retainers
travelled from Bealach Gabhran to Tubbridbritain in the year 942.2
But to return to the event which led us into this digression. Ech-
thighcrn, by whom the defeat was given to the Osraigh at Uach-
taraghy in the year 846, was lord of the petty municipality in
Leinster, then denominated Laighin deas Gabhair, and which was
identical with the level tract of land situated between the present
afar off, but suspected to be close at
their backs, in consequence of confused
misgivings respecting the state of their
own sense of hearing. In such situa-
tions as the latter we have observed
many an ancient friend, and while the
stage whisked by them at the rate of nine
English miles an hour (making no more
ado of four insides and twelve outsides
than if the horses were blasts of whirl-
wind, and itself and its tenants light
clouds involved in the motion). We
fancied that in the upturned eyes, and
dropped jaws of the old gentlemen,
might be perceived — mastering even
their terror of being run over and
ground into dust— an expression of awful
amazement, as if the impetuous vehicle
were some supernatural wonder, boding
evil to mortals in its transit over the pub-
lic roads of this earth." Had life been
spared our townsman, he, too, in his
turn, would be absorbed in amazement
to behold his *' blasts of whirlwind"
superseded by the locomotives of our
day. These extracts are taken from
" The Conformists," a beautiful local
narrative by the authors of " Tales by
the O'Hara Family." The book is now
out of print, that from which I quote be-
ing Colburn and Bentley's ed., London,
1830, vol.ii., p. 191, et. seq. This paper
was originally written three years ago,
since which a new edition of this work
has been issued.
1 Forded the River. — The fording of
the Nore at Maddoxtown by this an-
cient roadway mnst have been discon-
tinued since the period of the construc-
tion of the mill weir. Mr. Colles tells
me that he has authority for stating
that both the mill and the weir of Mad-
doxtown were first erected by his great
grandfather, William Colles; and if this
were so, it would appear that the old
road from Highrath to Outrath was
intercepted at the same time that the
present Dublin road was being opened,
which would be but about one hundred
and thirty years ; but from the appear-
ance of the place it is certain that
this roadway is much longer out of
use, and this conclusion is fully sus-
tained by a Patent Roll (No. 2), 5 & 6 of
Philip and Mary, 1557-8, which grants
to Thomas Earl of Ormond and Ossory,
amongst other possessions, " a Water
Mill in Madduckeston." From whatever
period this water mill was erected, the
road over the river must have been in-
terrupted, as the construction of the Mill
Weir so dammed back the water as to
render a ford impracticable. It is to
be observed here, that the lane on the
opposite side of the river, well known as
the " Warrington Bosheen," is no part
of the old road from Highrath, but must
have been opened as an approach to th&
river from, the Boherathoundish road,
when that from Maddoxtown to Outrath
had been closed up. The word Maddox-
town appears to be derived from Bailli-
Modhomnoc, i. e. the town of Modhom-
noc, or Madomogue. This Madhomnoc
was most probably the patron saint of
the old church of Blackrath, the ruins
and burial-ground of which are still to
be seen on the side of the road as you
turn down to Maddoxtown Mill j but as
we shall have a special essay on the
"Patron days" and " Holy Wells" of
Ossory, we shall reserve our illustra-
tions of Maddoxtown and its church
till then.
2 Circuit of Muircheartach MacNeill. —
See this excursion of Muircheartach
already referred to, " Transactions*"
vol. v., new series, p. 201, n. 1.
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parish of Gowran and the River Barrow ; and if he and hisLagenian
tribesmen in their raid into Ossory adopted the line of march in-
dicated by the old road just illustrated, it would conduct them
both to Highrath, and " Ought," or Upper " Rath," of which the
latter appears to have derived its present titles from Oughteraghy,
where, on that occasion, he slew the people of Osraigh. We are not
informed in the Annals whether Cearbhall Mac Dunghal was present
at this engagement ; the probability is that he was not, and that the
defeat of his men was the result of his own absence ; however, he
bided his time for five years later. When we are next introduced
to him in the Annals, we read, " A. D. 851, Eachtighern, son of
Guaire, lord of Laighin dear Gabhair, was treacherously slain by
Cearbhall, son of Dunghal." The name " Eachtighern" would be
now Anglicised Egern and Egan.
In the year 856, " a victory was gained by Cearbhall, lord of
Osraigh, and by Imhar, in the territory of Aradh-tire over the
Cinel-Fiachach with the Gall-Gaeidhill (Dano-Irish), of Leith
Chuinn ; four hundred above six thousand was the number that
came with Cearbhall and Imhar." Aradh-tire is now the barony
of Arra, or Duarra, in the north-west of the county of Tipperary.
The extract is important, as it gives us an idea of the strength and
numbers of the Ossorian army at that period. The united forces
of Cearbhall and Imhar consisted of six thousand four hundred
men, Imhar, who was ancestor of the Danish kings of Dublin, acts
in concert with Cearbhall, which at first sight appears a rather
anomalous association, but at this period great fleets of Norsemen
entered the estuaries on the coasts of the island, and following the
courses of the rivers which, to those seafaring barbarians, served
as so many inroads to the interior of the country, harassed indis-
criminately both native and Danish inhabitants, in consequence of
which many of the Irish chieftains accepted the services of the
Danish leaders with their retainers ; and this explains why Imhar,
himself a Dane, will be subsequently found the friend and the ally
of Cearbhall Mac Dunghal.
The social happiness and political freedom consequent on the
emancipation of the people from the servitude of the Danes was
but of short duration. The internecine strife and mutual jealousies
of the native princes not only obstructed the progress of civiliza-
tion, but left the country open and defenceless to the swarms of
Danes and Norsemen, who now effecting settlements in the sea-
coast towns, gradually improved their condition, until they became
so formidable as to harass and oppress the natives, and again to
aim at the subjugation of the entire kingdom. Maelseachlainn, or
Malachy, who was just now raised to the monarchy of the nation,
attempted to remedy the public grievances of the time by an effort
to reconcile the conflicting elements of native strength ; and for
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that purpose convened a great meeting of the kings, chieftains, and
men of note throughout the island, with the object, say the An-
nalists, " of establishing peace and concord between the men of
Ireland." This meeting was summoned to a place then called
" Rath-Aedha-mic-Brie," Now Rathhugh, in the barony of Moy-
cashel, county of Westmeath. To this convention came "Feth-
ghna Comorbhan of Patrick,1 illustrious for the austerity of his
morals and the holiness of his life : here also came " Suairleach,
Comorbhan of Finnian," i. e. abbot or superior of the monastery
of Clonard. These are the only two ecclesiastics named as attend-
ing the meeting, though there can scarcely be a doubt that many
others assisted, by their presence and counsel, the important object
for which it was convened ; but the most prominent character named
in connexion with this august assemblage is that of " Cearbhall,
lord of Osraigh ;" he is said to have entered Meath at the head
of a great army, and here again he acts in concert with Amhlaeibh
and Imar, two Danish nobles. Cearbhall remained " for forty
nights at Ereros," now Orris, in Westmeath, during which period
he was occupied in plundering Meath, in which he was assisted for
the first day by the son of the king of Lochlann (now Killarney).
This plundering of Meath by Cearbhall is the most embarrassing
point in his biography. Meath was the territory of Malachy, the
monarch of the nation, and the brother-in-law of Cearbhall himself.
The following account of that event is taken from Ussher's trea-
tise on the " First Institution of Corbes :"— " O' Carroll, king of
Ossory, assisted with other kings, brought his army into the field
against the king of Taraughe ; but Imfeathna, Patrick's Corbe,
and Insuarlech Finne, his Corbe, interposing themselves, O'Carroll
was persuaded to yield to St. Patrick and his Corbe." The succes-
sors of Patrick and Finnian appear to have attached much import-
ance to the submission of Cearbhall ; for, after he had yielded to their
persuasions, the "Annalists" write—" Cearbhall, lord of Osraighe,
fave the award of the Coniorbhans of Patrick and Finnia to the
ing of Ireland;" after which it was decided "that the king of
Osraighe should be in league with Leath Chuinn," i. e. should
act harmoniously with the Hy Nials of Ulster, and then " Maelg-
ualai, king of Munster, came in and tendered his allegiance."
So that now a conciliation was effected between the kings of Mun-
ster, Ulster, Ossory, and Meath ; and this result being achieved,
1 Comorbhan of Patrick.— According tinguished Bishop, but it is highly im-
to the Catalogue of the Psalter of probable that the title of Archbishop
Cashel, quoted by Lanigan, vol. Hi., pp. was in his time known in Ireland.
277-280, Fethna was Archbishop of Ussher asserts that this Fethna is the
Armagh, and succeeded one Dermot first ecclesiastical person bearing the
in the year 852. He was the ecclesias- title of Comharba to be met with in the
tical superior of Armagh, and a dis- Irish Annals.
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the meeting was dissolved, and the chiefs and nobles returned to
their respective territories. The foreigners, however, do not ap-
pear to have been daunted by this combination of the kings, for
the same year, and immediately after the close of the meeting, the
Annalists record " Maelgualai, king of Munster, was stoned by
the Norsemen until they killed him."
In the year 858, the next after the great convention in West-
meath, Malachy summoned a hosting of the men of Leinster,
Munster, and Connaught, and of the southern Ui-Niell (the clans
of Meath), into the north, and pitched his camp at Magh-Dumha,
in the neighbourhood of Armagh ; during this northern campaign
Cearbhall remains at home the vigilant guardian of his own people.
Port Lairge, or Waterford, was then and subsequently one of the
greatest strongholds of the Danes on the eastern coast of Ireland ;
and from their fleet then sailing in that harbour, they constantly
harassed the interior of Osraigh. The great southern pass way from
the valley of the Suir to that of the Nore was then, as now,
through the valley or gap in the Walsh Mountains, then known as
Bealach-Ele, and somewhere in this pass " a victory was gained by
Cearbhall over the fleet of Port-Lairge at Achadh-mic-Erclaighe."
In this word Erclaighe the " c" and " gh" are aspirated, leaving
the Anglicised pronunciation Earley, or Erlea; the word " Ach-
adh," like " Garradh," implies the cultivated land or tillage fields
which surrounded the chieftain's mansion ; hence Achadh-mic-Er-
claighe would be properly translated the field of the son of Early,
or Earley's Field. In a Patent Roll, 19 Char. II., a well-known
townland in the neighbourhood of Mullinavatt is denominated
" Earle's-Rath," and in a subsequent Roll, " Earlesrath;" and
Mr. John Carroll,1 the present proprietor of this locality, informs
me that the Irish form of Earlsrath is " Ra-an-Earclaighe" which
enables us to identify it as the scene of the conflict between the
crews of the Danish fleet and the tribesmen of Osraigh. The victory
here gained by Cearbhall over the foreigners appears to have been
both decisive and significant ; for in the next year, viz., 859, we find
the following event recorded in the Annals: — "The renewal of
the fair of Roighna by Cearbhall Mac Dunghal." Roighna, or
Kaighne, was the original name of southern Ossory, hence the
" fair" of that name must have been an institution of very remote
times ; it was a public anniversary similar in its constitution to the
fairs ofTailteen, in Meath, and Carman, in Leinster, which in-
cluded athletic exercises, equestrian sports, and other popular
1 It cannot fail to interest Mr. John own land his great ancestor, the head
Carroll to be thus enabled to identify of the O'Carrolls of Ossory, so nobly
the locality of Earlsrath, as the scene vindicated the valour of his race over
of this victory; indeed it is a singularly the invaders of his country,
interesting circumstance that, on his
amusements. By the renewal of this fair in Osraigh is implied
the re-establishing of the public institutions of the kingdom, which
most probably had been interrupted and suspended since the
foreigners had ravaged this territory and burned its churches dur-
intr the lifetime of Dunghal, the father of the present king ; hence
the restoration of those games must have been an important and
auspicious event in the reign of Cearbhall Mac^Dunghal, as it im-
plies the restoration of social security in his dominions. Two years
after the re-opening of the fair of Roighna, we are again introduced
to Cearbhall in the north-western extreme of our present county
engaged in deadly conflict with the invaders; at the year 861 we
find the concise but comprehensive entry in the Annals : — " The
killing of the foreigners at Fearta-na-gCaireach1 by Cearbhall, so
that forty heads were left to him, and that he banished them from
the territory." The round tower of Feartagh, in the barony of
Galmoy, marks the site of this triumph of native prowess. From
the Danish occupation of this territory would appear to be derived
the name of the present barony. The word Galmoy is a com-
pound of " Gall," a foreigner, and " Magh" (pronounced Moy), a
plain ; hence Galmoy implies the plain of the foreigners ; and the old
church of Glashare, situated in this plain, is locally denominated
" Tempul-na-Gall," i. e. the church of the foreigners. In the
year 862 Cearbhall makes a raid through Leinster, which was re-
taliated by the Leinstermen on the Osraigh within the next fort-
night. The same year he plundered Munster till he reached Fer-
moy ; he then proceeded further south, and harassed the country
of Ui Aenghusa, i. e. the descendants of Aenghus Mac Nadh-
frach, who expelled the Ossorians out of Feimhin in the fifth
century.
In the year 860, on Tuesday, the 13th November, Maelseach-
lan, or Malachy, died after he had been sixteen years in the sove-
reignty of Ireland ; he was succeeded by Aedh Finnliath (which
would be translated Hugh Fennelly), son to Nial Caille, who
had been drowned in the Callan river in the year 844. The new
1 Fearta-na-gCaireach.— i. e. The priory of Fertnegeragh, amounting to
grave or burial-place of the sheep. We the yearly value of £12 13s. 4d.," were
find many interesting references to by letters patent passed to James But-
the ancient ecclesiastical establishment ler, brother to the Earl of Ormonde,
founded at Fearta by St. Kyran of It will be observed that Robert Shortal
Saighar.respecting which, see Archdall, was prior of the house at the time of its
at Kilkenny. On the suppression of this suppression. The Shortals supplanted
house in 1540-44, Robert Shortal was the O'Gafneys and the O'Brophys in
mf'XP by a Patent Ro11' 31st Henry that country shortly after the Anglo-
Vlll. (No. 8), a "pension of 5 marks" Norman invasion, and remained in pos-
was reserved to him out of the posses- session till they were themselves sup-
oTVpr °u dl8l8olved Prioi7> but in the planted by the Cromwellian settlers in
atn of Elizabeth (No. 51), " the rever- the middle of the seventeenth century,
sum and rents of the late monastery, or
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monarch appears to have early engaged the services of Cearbhall
Mac Dunghal. In the year 868 they are introduced to our notice,
acting together in a plundering expedition through Leinster.
The following is the account of this event from the " Annals of
the Four Masters," A.D. 868: — " The plundering of Leinster by
Aedh Finnliath from Ath-Cliath to Gabhran. Cearbhall, son of
Dunghal, plundered it on the other side, as far as Dunbolg. The
Leinstermen attacked [Dun-Cearbhaill] the fort of Cearbhall, and
the son ofGaithin, and many men were slain by them. When
the people of [Longphort] the fort had perceived this, they fought
bravely against them, so that they compelled them, with their
chief, Brann, son of Muireadhach, to return back, after numbers of
their people had been slain." The construction of this passage is
somewhat complicated and the sense obscure. The context will
read thus. Hugh Finnliath, King of Ireland, laid waste the terri-
tory of Leinster from Gabhran (Gowran), the King of Osraigh's
territory, to Ath-cliath (Dublin), the then stronghold of the Norse-
men. Whilst simultaneously Cearbhall, King of Osraigh, made a
raid " on the other side " ; that is, as I understand it, on the east
side of Mount Leinster, when he plundered up the valley of the
Slaney as far as the place then called Dunbolg, near Dunlavin, in
the county of Wicklow. The Leinstermen, provoked by this en-
croachment of Cearbhall, organised a force, and meditated a raid
into his kingdom under the leadership of Brann, son to the then
King of Leinster, and availing themselves of the facility for their
project, afforded by the absence of Cearbhall, set out on an excur-
sion into Osraigh. On their way they " spoiled" the mansion place
of Mac Gaithin, who was then Lord of Laeighis or Leix, in the
now Queen's County ; thence proceeding further south they at-
tacked Dun-Cearbhaill, and slew some of the garrison in the surprise
of the attack; but the "people of the Longphort," having "per-
ceived" the assault on the king's mansion, hastened to the as-
assistance of the failing garrison, bravely defended the citadel,
slew a great number of the assailants, and forced the remainder to
retreat back with their chief, Brann, into Leinster. As this is
the only reference in the "Annals of the Four Masters" to the
castellurn or mansion-place of Cearbhall Mac Dunghal, and as its
locality and the site of the present city of Kilkenny are held to
be identical, a short topographical digression may be allowed for
its further illustration.
DUN-CEARBHAILL AND THE CASTLE OF KILKENNY. — The
present Castle of Kilkenny is peculiarly situated in relation to the
little city which lies beneath it. To us, who are wont to gaze,
from some intramural vista, on the proud and lofty aspect of its
frontal elevation, as it rises in colossal grandeur from its terraced
basement to the declining forms of its tower-like minarets, it seems
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as if seated in state on its throne-like eminence, patronizingly re-
irardincr the peaceful domiciles and unassuming mansions of the
nuainU>ld ville beneath its shadow, whilst an observer from the
more expansive prospects obtained from the eastern side of the
Nore where the eye takes it in as the /ma/, or terminating orna-
ment'ofthe house-crowded ridge of the " Hightown," regards it
as if reflecting the approval of its fairest aspect on the various
scenes of human life in the city below. Yet, not two centuries
since, and ere this castellated mansion had been denuded of its
embattled defences and fortified outworks, it seemed to have regard
to an opposite direction, having its rere turned towards the town,
which would appear to have grown up behind its back ;' its court
yard was entered through a covered portal between two bastions
which opened from an old road which at that time ran down through
the present castle lawn, but which was originally an important
highway that forded the Nore at the site of the present " Ormonde
Mills." and on the brow2 of which a castle was here first erected,
i Grown up behind its back.— It is sig-
nificant that down to the present day
the principal elevation of the castle has
been designated its back; the pictu-
resque piece of ground stretching from
the castle to Roseinn-street is denomi-
nated the back lawn, though it lies in
landscape order under the frontal and
most graceful aspect of the building.
In Dineley's pen-and-ink sketch of the
castle made during his visit to Kilkenny
in the reign of Charles II., no entrance
into the court-yard is shown, because
the draft is taken from the back or city
aspect. The wall in which the beauti-
ful classic gateway has been since erect-
ed, and which connects the south-west
and north-west towers, was then an un-
broken curtain wall without any aper-
ture, the entrance down to that time
being from the Black Quarry, or south
side. In Rocque's Survey of Kilkenny,
made about the year 1757, the roadway
from Archer-street is shown running
direct down through the present castle
lawn until it arrived at the south curtain
wall of the court yard, at which point
stood the ancient entrance into the fort-
ress ; from this gateway the road turned
by a right angle over to the head of
the parade, which it entered through
the portal, then called "Castle Gate."
In the summer of 1861, during the course
of some excavations being effected in the
castle lawn, the foundations of the great
south curtain wall and ancient entrance
gate, with its two bastions, were fullv
exposed to view. It is a really signi-
ficant circumstance that the entrance
into the castle should be from without
the city, and that the back of that build-
ing should be found thus presented to
the town which it was always believed
had grown up along with itself. No con-
ceivable object can be assigned for this
arrangement, save that stated above,
viz., that before this castle had been
erected, an Irish fortress occupied its
site ; that it stood on the brow of the
ancient road which forded the river at
the site of the present Ormonde Mills;
that the entrance into the fortress was
from this road, and not from the city,
which, at that remote period had no
existence, and that in the remodelling, or
rebuilding of the castle by William Earl
Marshall, he adopted the original ground
plan, and erected the entrance on the
site of the previous gateway, and not
the least singular feature of the case is.
that through the various social and po-
litical vicissitudes of near six hundred
years the entrance into the castle re-
mained down to the beginning of the last
century locally the same as it must have
stood before the English Invasion.
2 On the brow. — The ancient Celtic
villas, or ballys, the forts of the Irish
chieftains, and the fortress of the Anglo-
Norman barons, all stood on the sides
of the public roads of the time, and this
order of social and civil architecture
continued in operation down to the
end of the seventeenth century, when
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whilst the now adjoining city was still unreclaimed from the primi-
tive fastnesses of the valley of the Nore. It will then be interest-
ing and appropriate to introduce the grounds upon which I claim
a high degree of antiquity for the Castle of Kilkenny, by a short
illustration of this ancient roadway, which is apparently one of the
earliest of those that entered the locality now known as Kilkenny.
The road just referred to now enters the town under the first
bridge of the Waterford and Kilkenny Railway, where it is known
as " William's-lane;" and before I trace its connexion with the
castle, I shall endeavour to restore its time-worn pathway, through
the country, to its original destination. From William's-lane this
old by-way intersects the Hebron-road, at the Workhouse cemetery,
to which locality we remember the suburban cottages to have
reached from Maudlin-street, before the famine of 1846. From
the Hebron-road here our old path aims direct at "Grarrynacreen,"
the primitive outlines and interesting features of which are still
remarkable. We learn from an inquisition taken the llth of Oc-
tober, 1625, that Philip Purcell, late of Ballyfoyle, was seised of
the town and lands of Garry enchrine I Purcialyh, that is, in Ui
or Hy-Purcialyh, being a corruption or modification of the Irish
form for Purcell's country — such as Ui Duach, or Hy-Kinshaleh.
Purcell's country extended from Ballyfoyle, the principal residence
of the family in this county, west of Claragh, to Purcell's Inch,
on the River Nore, which he held "from the Earl of Ormonde,
the age of road-making opened in the the ancient churches, the Norman cas-
British islands. According to Penant, ties, the manorial mansions, &c., &c.,
it was only in 1723 that the Scottish now became far removed from the pub-
Highlands became accessible on account lie highways, and were only approach-
of the previous want of roads, and it able by the old neglected roadways, now
was about the same era that the roads termed by-roads and bosheens ; hence it
now generally used in Ireland were became a matter of necessity to connect
about being opened. The public tho- the more important of those localities
roughfares of that period in Ireland with the newly-constructed highways,
were constructed on the same plan as and from this resulted the formation of
those then being opened in Scotland. the old straight avenues now almost out
" They are narrow and straight, being of use, and which look so picturesque,
carried over every inequality of sur- when as most of them are planted with
face ; the object being to pursue straight stately elms or beech : the spacious ap-
lines, as if to defy both nature and preaches to Bonnetstown, Kilcreen,
wheeled carriages." Down to that time Kilferagh, Sheestown, Danesfort, &c.,
the roads ran through the country vil- &c., are all to be assigned to the early
lages, and immediately in front of the part of the first half of the last century ;
mansions of the gentry. Before then the but this style of country life has now
Ballycallan road ran into Irishtown by been superseded by the more modern
the hall door of Kilcreen house. The order of landscape gardening. Our
old road from Knocktopher ran down country residences do not now hold corn-
to Stonecarty Church, in front of Flood mand of the public highways ; they are
Hall house. Innumerable such cases now shaded in groves or parks, they
might be here named if it were neces- are surrounded by undulating lawns,
sary. The opening of the new road- and are approached by sweet paths, and
ways completely changed the social curving avenues, opening from graceful
aspect of the county. The rural villages, entrance lodges at the road.
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as of his manor of Gowran." Garynacreen must have been a place
of domestic distinction, of comfort and hospitality, in the days of
the Purcells' affluence, the conviction of which is forced on the
observer by its venerable aspect, its fine plantations, and the moss-
covered ruins of its ancient church. We now ford the stream
here called the Sunneen dheen, and follow our old road as it passes
in front of a fine old mansion house1 of the last century, now fast
crumbling to decay ; thence along the end of the field, in which
stands erect the colossal pillar-stone which excites the wonder of
every observer; we cross the transverse road at the end of Garry-
imcreen, and enter the opposite fields at the western boundary of
the townland of " Kingsland," where the old track is marked by
a line of ditches, one field in on the south side of the Johnswell-
road, above the " Pococke School." Along this rustic boundary
are ranged the farmers' houses of " Kingsland," which, though of
modern erection, their founders clung with Celtic tenacity to the
site of older domiciles which had been built on the brow of the
ancient road-way, which, thence through the townland of Green-
ridge, inclined towards the Johnswell-road, and intersected it op-
posite the gate through which in earlier years and in our rural
rani hies we used to make a " short cut" over to Sandfordscourt
Castle.
This old pathway through the fields formed originally the con-
tinuation of the road from Garrynacreen ; it passed in front of
this castle, from thence by the end of the field in which stands
the old church of Rathcool to the primitive hamlet of Johns-
well,- thence aiming at the north by " Mount Rose house," where
1 Mansion- house — This old fabric The ancient Celtic fortress, from which
used to be called the " Court;" the out- is derived the name of this whole parish,
offices were very extensive, and the gar- viz. : Rath-cool, i. e. the fort of the
dens and enclosures indicate a once im- ridge, still remains here, and presents
portant establishment. Since the ob- yet its formidable aspect to an observer,
servations of the text were first written Judging from the magnitude of this rath
the whole building has completely dis- and the great Urscur or street spread
appeared. The foundations, sewerage, out before its front, the toparch who
and draw-well, still point out the site of there resided must have been a chieftain
the once comfortable domicile. of distinction. It seems probable that
» JuhnKivell. — The village of Johns- this was the mansion of Maelmaniadhe,
well, formerly so celebrated for its " Pa- a chieftain of Ossory, in the tenth cen-
tron day," is formed of an open space or tury, who, with his descendants, are
green, in the centre of which the fine frequently named in the " Annals of the
translucent spring known as "St. Four Masters." The word " Mael" was
John's Well" is situated. This primi- an Irish prefix to family names of much
live Urscur or Celtic street, and its use, use until the establishment of sirnames,
are thus described in Cormac's Glossary . after which the prefix became gradually
Ramat, i .e. wider than a Root, i. e. an disused, and then Maelmuriadhe became
Lrscar, an open space or street which Murry ; Maelruain, Ryan, and Mael-
s in front of the forts of kings. Every maniadhe, Meany. I have known over
keighbonr whose land comes up to it six families of the Meanys about the
mnd to clean it." The Urscur of district of Johns well, but whether their
Johnswell is now much encroached on. ancestors were kings of Rathcool, or
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part of it still exists, as an obscure lane, it ran out on the present
Tullabirn road, where it joined the old blind bosheen (as it is called)
from which we have no difficulty in tracing its ancient line over the
mountains of Rathcool, where occasionally it is intersected by gate-
ways ; yet all through it is a public thoroughfare, until it descends
into the open country of " Wildfield," an irregular, bason-like
valley, between the hills of Muckalee. Here the old road has been
so distorted, in endeavouring to accommodate it to modern con-
venience, that it presents a very complicated appearance. It fords
the Dubhglas, or black stream, under Rockbrook House, the resi-
dence of the Rev. Michael Birch, P.P., an enlightened antiquarian,
and now for many years a member of this Society. Having in the
course of the past summer spent a day with him amongst those
alpine ridges of the Johnswell mountains, where the gentle breezes
of the plain beneath sweep over those lofty peaks in volumes of
hazy storm and mountain fog, I communicated to him my convic-
tion that the old bosheen running under his house formed part of a
great highway that in early times connected Athy with Kilkenny.
He informed me that the peculiarities of this curious old road had
often attracted his own attention, and he proposed a short excursion
along its line, from which we might glean some further information
respecting its mountain course. We traced it through Wildfield,
where there is no mistaking its track in the ruins of once extensive
farming establishments. From this it is modernised into the high
road that now runs in front of the parish chapel of Muckalee to
Clogharinka Castle, where it bifurcates, sending off a modern
branch to face the breast of the hills, over which it climbs on its
way to Old Leighlin ; the original line descends from Clogharinka,
the declivity of the hill, to the summit of which we now ascended
above the old ruin, and working our way through masses of heath,
stumps of furze, and ledges of rock, AVC gained the northern bluff
of the ridge on which stands the chapel of Muckalee. It was a
clear harvest mid-day, and the orb of noon shed floods of golden
otherwise, can of course be no more Cantwell's Court ; when they were mar-
than conjecture. Except the rath, the ried, and whether they had any issue.
Urscur, and the well, the place retains John Butler, of Rathcowle, deposed that
no trace of any previous importance. John Shortal and Johanna Cantwell
The chapel and the graveyard, which were married in the parish church of
covers a portion of the ancient green, are Rathcowle, at Christmas, and about mid-
of comparative modern origin, and could summer next ensuing had issue a son.
have had no existence until the parish Thomas Iver Obragh, of Tollcastle
church of Rathcool had became a ruin, (Oldcastle?). Annastace Iny Kre, of
which must be assigned to the time Cantwellscourte agreed with the last
when the Cantwells lost their posses- witness, and further deposed that " af-
sions in Cantwell's Court and Rathcool. ter the Marriage, Mass was said and
According to a Patent Roll, 5th Ed- ministered at the feast." The ruins of
ward VI., 1551, interrogations were di- Rathcool church now present a most
rected to ascertain whether John Shortal desolate aspect on the side of the road
was married to Johanna Cantwell, of opposite Sandfordscourt Castle,
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sunlight over the face of the great prospect now spread out beneath
our feet. The expansive fasagh of the Dinan now discovered the
eccentric curvings of that stream, as it reflected back the solar rays
in gilded lines; down to this stream from Clogharinka Castle we
now trace the old road from Garrynacreen, and here, fording the
river at a broad shallow, it again creeps up the opposite acclivity,
now curving round the base of an insurmountable cliff, again it
sinks to the°level of a verdant sward, and again we discern it run-
ning along the summit of an arid rid«e ; and thus did we trace its
irregular outlines over the hills of Fassidineen. It runs direct
through Smithstown Cross : keeping about two miles east of
Castlecomer, it enters the barony of " Sliabh Margy," the ancient
principality of Laighis, or Leix, in the now Queen's County. By
the aid of the Ordnance Map of the barony of Slieve Margy, 1
have traced its course over these hilly districts : occasionally it
forms the segment of a modern road ; now it is lost in the fields;
but again we discover it in a townland boundary or an obscure
bosheen, until it descends from the mountains to ford the Barrow
at Athy. I have no hesitation in asserting this to be the remains
of one of the most ancient roads that entered Kilkenny, and it cer-
tainly appears to be the road on u Gabhair" by which Conall
Cearnach travelled to Rathbeath, in the second century.1
We now return to the entrance of this road into Kilkenny. At
the Railway bridge it is now called " Williams'-lane," so known
from the Salt Works there, of which Mr. Williams is the pro-
prietor. Forty years ago it was known as the Chapel bosheen, as it
then formed a "short cut" by Garrynacreen to the neighbouring
house of worship. In the year 1819 it was intersected by the new
road from Windgap to Upper John-street. Previous to this it ran
direct into Maudlin-street, opposite the Magdalene mill, where it
is still open and crowded with houses, and which marks the place
where it originally forded the Nore. It was on the brow of this
ancient road that the old " Black Castle" in Maudlin-street was
erected. The doorway of this structure faced the old road, or rather
faced the bawn or courtyard that stretched out in front of this castle,
which seems to have been originally designed and constructed as the
keeper stronghold for the protection of the farmyard, barns, grana-
ries, &c., belonging to the lord of Kilkenny Castle, which were
situated on the east side of the Nore ; and, as there was no pass
over the river between the site of this castle and that of the present
Green's Bridge, the locality of the present "Ormond Mills" must
i Conall Cearneach.—See an account extracted from the "Book ofLeinster"
off this pre-Christian chieftain's excur- and published in the introduction pre-
sion from the banks of the Liffey, in fixed to the "Book of Rights" by its
Idare to the valley of the Nore, near learned Editor, the late Dr. O'Donovan,
Rathbeath, m the county of Kilkenny, p. lx.
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have been the ordinary ford over the Nore previous to the erection
of St. John's Bridge, and, consequently, at that period Williams'-
lane ran directly over the stream, down through the castle grounds,
and in front of the castle itself. When in late years the ford here
was converted into a mill, the old road on the castle side of the
river was supplied by a substitute removed more remote from the
castle, so as to aiford that mansion a more commodious lawn or
demesne. This modification of the original road existed down to
our own time, under the name of the " Mill-road," and was only
closed up about ten years since. From the castle, on the western
side of the town, the course of this road cannot be determined with
the same degree of certainty as on the opposite side of the river,
as is to be expected from the social changes and topographical mo-
difications consequent on the erection of the "Hightown ;" but as re-
gards its situation and direction north-east from the Castle, nothing
can be more certain than that, at whatever period it was constructed,
it was designed as the medium of communication between the two
most ancient provinces in Leinster — namely, Laighin tuath Gabhair,
i. e. Leinster north of the Gabhran hills, and Laighin deas Gabhair,
or Leinster south of the same ridge. It led by the most direct
line from the site of the present Castle of Kilkenny, \n\Laighin deas
Gabhair, over the Gabhran hills, through the kingdom of Laeighis,
or Leix, in the now Queen's County, whence it descended from the
high grounds of Sliabh Margie, to ford the Barrow at Athy, where
it entered the territory of Laighin tuath Gabhair, which was nearly
identical with the present counties of Kildare and Wicklow. Car-
low and Wexford were then known as Idrone and Hy-Kinshaleh.
Having now sketched the topographical outlines of this obscure
by-way, we shall see if history sheds even one ray of light on the
antiquity of its existence.
In the " Annals of the Four Masters," just quoted, we find, at
the year 868, that whilst Aedh Finnlaith, King of Ireland, and
Cearbhall, King of Osraigh, were engaged in plundering Leinster,
the former from Dublin to Gowran, and the latter along the more
eastern districts as far up as Dunlavin, in the county Wicklow, the
Leinster men, under the command of Brann, son of the then king
of that province, made a raid into Ossory, when we are told that
they " attacked the forts of Cearbhall, and of Mac Gaithin." We
have here three localities pointed out, and their relative situations
will enable us to identify the route of the Leinstermen on their
plundering excursion. First, the residence of the King of Leinster,
whose son was captain of the raid, was then called " Kath-Brann,"
or Dunbrain, near Baltinglass, in the now county of Wicklow, and
consequently in Laighin tuath Gabhair ; secondly, we are told that
"they spoiled MacGaithin's mansion place," and we learn from the
" Annals of the Four Masters" that this MacGaithin was Lord of
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Laechis, or Leix, in the now Queen's County ; and hence the line
of march adopted by the Leinstermen from Dunbrann must have
been over the Barrow, at Athy, whence they got on the old road on
Gabhair, which led them through the kingdom of Laeighis, where
they paid their respects to the mansion of the lord of that country.
The party under Brann were probably induced to select this route
intoOsraigh in preference to that through "BaelachGabhram," from
the circumstance that the plains of Leinster, as far as Gowran, were
then being scoured by the troops of Aedh Finnliath, with whom
Cearbhalf was acting in concert. After spoiling MacGaithin's
house, the Leinstermen proceed to attack the " fort of Cearbhall."
Here, however, they were repulsed by the "people of the Long-
phort," who fought with great bravery, slew a great number of the
assailants, and compelled the remainder to retreat back into Lein-
ster ; and here now we have to inquire where was the fort of Cear-
bhall situated?
That Cearbhall Mac Dunghal held the seat of his government
in " Magh-Rath," that this territory from him assumed the name of
" Cluain Ui-Cearbhaill," and that this verdant lawn included within
its limits the site of the present city of Kilkenny, are points which
we have already demonstrated. Was Kilkenny, then, the capital of
Ui-Cearbhaill ? Upon the topographical and historical evidence ad-
duced, it cannot be doubted that from whatever period Ui-Cear-
bhaill became a district of distinction, the site of our present city
must have been its capital, no matter by what name it was then re-
cognised. Was Dun-Cearbhaill then situated within the limits of
the present city ? If so, the old road " on Gabhair " led the Lein-
stermen directly into it. Did it stand on the site of the present
castle of Kilkenny ? If so, the same road conducted them from the
fort of Mac Gaithin in Leix by Garrynacreen, and thence over the
Nore to the very base of its defences.
But we have materials at hand that enable us to determine
with certainty the site of the fort of Cearbhaill MacDunghal.
Donnchadh, son of Ceallach and grandson to Cearbhall, suc-
ceeded to the kingdom of Osraigh in the year 927. As we shall
have some inquiries to make hereafter respecting his more public
actions, I shall confine myself here to those that effect the point
now under discussion. Keating1 (who compiled his history from
sources no longer accessible) eulogizes Donnchadh for his solici-
tude to provide support for the churches and the poor of his king-
dom, and the details of the organization by which he effected these
> Keating.— 1\w passage quoted above made by Dr. John Lynch, and for the
is not to be found in any of this author's first time published by the Rev. James
published translations. It is taken from Graves. " See History, Antiquities, and
a transcript made by the late Dr. O'Do- Architecture of the Cathedral Church of
novan, from a Latin version of Keating, St. Canice," p. 8, n. b.
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objects, though they bear the impress of the rude simplicity of their
age, differ little from the plans adopted at the present day to col-
lect alms for the support of religious and charitable institutions.
" In singulis etiam Ossiriaa domibus tres coriasios saculos haberi
curavit, in quorum uno decimam edulij sui partem singuli reconde-
bant; alter stipem pauperibus assignatum Hibernice TTlip TThchil,
id est, portio Michaelis asservabat; postremo micte et reliquiae,
matrefamilias potissimum sollicitante committebantur." Which
may be thus translated : — " He also took care that three leathern
bags should be kept in each house in Ossory, in one of which each
person laid by the tenth part of his food; in the second were pre-
served the alms allotted for the poor, called in Irish " mir Michil"
that is the portion of St. Michael ; and in the last, crumbs and
other things were kept, chiefly at the solicitation of the lady of
the house." The alms preserved in the second bag were collected
fc>£ the support of a public charitable institution called " Mir
Michil"1 from being instituted under the patronage of that saint,
and apparently analogous to the St. Vincent de Paul Society of
the present day. As Donnchadh " had been accustomed to sup-
port orphans or any persons oppressed with poverty in the houses
of his friends," it seems that the crumbs, &c., collected in the third
satchel by the care of the mother of the family, were reserved
for that class of indigents ; and as regards the first satchel which
contained the tenth part of the food, or the tithes of the provisions
of the house, no doubt can be entertained that it was the portion
of the Church. We have no information respecting the mode by
which this latter benefaction was distributed : it is probable that
originally it was designed for the support of the clergy of the
church of the manor or the family chapel ; yet in later times it
seems to have been disposed of through the hands of the bishop, —
for we find Felix O'Dullany granting to Prior Osbert and the
rest of his brethren of the Hospital of St. John, at the east side
of the bridge of Kilkenny, the tithes or tenth part of all the pro-
visions of the Castle in pure and perpetual alms ;2 or, in other
words, he grants them, according to the institution of Donn-
chadh, the satchel which contained the tenth part of all the provi-
sions or food received into that mansion. That O'Dullany acted
1 Mir Michail. — This charitable in- Graves for this important historical
stitution was first established by St. item ; he quotes it from excerpts from
Patrick and Queen Loaghaire : a de- the Cartulary of the Hospital of St.
tailed account of it will be found in John, Kilkenny, in Sir James Ware's
Keating's ' History,' Life of St. Patrick. autograph, dated June 5th, 1638, British
Like most other occurrences, it is en- Museum, Lansdown MSS., Plut. Ixxvj.,
veloped in fable. E. 418. See " History, Antiquities, and
2 Alms. — We are indebted to the Architecture of the Cathedral Church
literary researches of the Rev. James of St. Canice," p. 29, note a.
T
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on this occasion in virtue of the right vested in him by the institu-
tion of Donnchadh is certain from the fact that he, an Irish
bishop, whose cathedral church was then at Achabo, a district in
open defiance of English rule, would not dare to come down from
the wilds of " Coil-Uachtoragh"1 in the heart of an unconquered
country to levy an impost on the citadel of the Anglo-Norman
feudal lord, at the very period that this bold adventurer was
flushed with the triumph of his arms over the native race, except
that he acted on the prescriptive rights inherited from his predeces-
sors, and which must have been recognised by the then newly
constituted lord of the castle. It may be objected here that
though O'Dullany acted on this occasion in virtue of the right
derived from the institution of Donnchadh, it does not follow
thence that the castle in which it was then observed was the same
mansion in which Uonnchadh resided and first instituted the
custom, inasmuch as he established the same in every house^n
his kingdom. Though this inference might be fairly deduced
from the authorities cited, it will still necessarily follow that the
castle of Kilkenny stands on the site of an ancient Irish mansion, in
which the institutions and customs of the kings of Osraigh were
preserved down to the English Invasion, and as this mansion stood
in the capital of Cluain Ui Ceabhaill^ and on the brow of the ancient
road that led from " Laighin tuath Gabhair," by the house of Mac
Gaithin, in Laeighis (Leix), and thence to the fort of Cearbhall
MacDonghal, in Laighin deas Gubhair, I know not on what
ground it can be denied that this was the site on which he first
erected his Castellum, and in which his grandson, Donchadh, sub-
sequently resided, and where he established that singular institu-
tion which existed here down to the time of the Earl Marshall.
Yet it appears certain that the seat of O'Cearbhall's admistra-
tion was undistinguished by any particular title during the period
of his own life. In the annals it is simply called " Dun-Cearbhaill"
which implies that it did not stand in a locality of previous cele-
brity, as the record would not fail to add its name. It is called
Dun-Cearbhaill," whence we are to infer that Cearbhall himself
erected this castellum, which assumed the title of its founder;
further, that this fort was surrounded by a stone cashel, and from
which came the title of the part of Upper Patrick-street, still called
This word being of purely Celtic origin, could not
lave been derived from any other source than, the existence of that
which it implies, namely, " a circular stone fort;" and, as the cas-
llums ot the great feudatories or kings were alone furnished with
follows that its use as a topographical term in Kil-
Uood inTh. o°W,oe ar°ny °f ancient tribe land of ^e O'Dullany, or
Upperwoods, m the Queen's County, the O'Delanys.
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kenny has been preserved from the period when it enclosed the
castellum of the local dynast in the same neighbourhood ; and as
we find this fort standing here at the Anglo-Norman Invasion, I
consider it proved that, on the site of the present castle of Kil-
kenny, the Munster monarch enjoyed the hospitable fare of the
King of Osraigh ; that here Cearbhall Mac Dunghall, and his
daughter, " Mor, Queen of Laighin deas Gabhair," lived in state;
and that this was the " Dun-Cearbhaill" which was attacked by the
Leinstermen, and which the people of the fortress so bravely de-
fended. In the sequel of this essay I undertake to establish that
this castle continued to be the residence of the kings of Osraigh
down to the year 1170, when Diarmaid Mac Muirchadha banished
the son and successor of Donnchadh Mac Gillaphadraig to Upper
Osraigh, after which the castle was taken possession of by the Eng-
lish retainers of Diarmaid, then called " Galls." From this strong-
hold Domhnall O'Brien expelled them in 1172, or 1173, when he
is said to have demolished the ancient fort, and on the site of which
the Earl Marschall subsequently erected that proud Norman resi-
dence, which, through various vicissitudes and sundry modifications,
has come down to our own times identified with the salient epochs
in the chequered history of the Anglo- Irish race.
Having thus concluded our discussion, we resume our memoir
of Cearbhall Mac Dunghal.
In the year 868, we read of Cearbhall, at the head of the Os-
raigh, invading the territory of Deisi, when Corcran and Gorman,
two petty dynasts of that territory, were slain by them. In the
year 869, Cearbhall and his clansmen plundered Connaught, thence
he made a raid through Munster, which he spoiled and harassed
from the mountains of Sliebh-Luachra westwards to the sea. It
was whilst he was thus engaged, and " during the snow of Bridget-
mas this year," that the lords of the foreigners were plundering and
slaying " the men of the three plains." These three plains, according
to the opinion of Dr. O'Donovan, were " Magh Airbh," Magh Sedna,
and Magh Tuath ; the latter was situated in Upper Osraigh. It ap-
pears to me much more probable that the three plains referred to
were Magh Roighna, Magh Airged-Ros, and Magh Tuath. These
three territories extend the entire length of Osraigh, from the base
of the Slieve Bloom mountains in the north, to the Walsh moun-
tains in the south, through the pass in which the foreigners usually
entered Osraigh from their fleet in the bay of Port Largie (i. e. Wa-
terford Harbour). In the year 872, Cearbhall again ravaged the
country of Deisi as far as " Bealach-Eochaille," i. e. as far as the
ballagh or pass of Youghal. In the year 876, " A defeat was given
to the Leinstermen at Uachtar-dara, when Bolgodhar, son of
Maelceir, was killed." In this name, Bolgodhar, the dh would be
aspirated, leaving the pronunciation, Bolgohar, apparently the
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Celtic form of the family name, Bolger.' The word Uachtar-
dara would be pronounced Uachter-arra, and, according to the
inion of O'Donovan and the Inquisition, quoted above, refers
to the locality now called Outrath. This victory is immediately
followed, and in the same year, by another thus recorded :—< A
slaughter was made of the people of Laighin dear Gabhair, at
Fulachta by the Osraighi, wherein Donag, son of Anmchadch,
and Dubhthoirtrigh, son of Maelduin, were slain, together with
two hundred men, who were cut off by slaying and droiumng. '
The district at the time of this event called Laighin deas trabhair,
wi3 identical with that marked Magh Mail on the map which ac-
companied the last section of this essay, and may be here described
as the country lying between the present parish of Gowran and the
River Barrow. The battle here recorded must have taken place
on the banks of the River Nore, for the "drowning" could not be
performed unless at that or the Barrow river ^ it is not probable
that the people of Osraigh would pass out of their own country and
attack the Laighin deas Gabhair on the River Barrow, it is much
more probable that this action was the result of another raid made
by the La^cnians of that district into Osraigh, and that in crossing
the Nore they were interrupted by the tribesmen of Cearbhall Mac
Dunghal. It appears to me highly probable that the word Fulachta
is preserved in the name ot' a very obscure but very primitive lo-
cality near Bennet's-bridge, where the ancient road from Boher-
nathoundish forded the River Nore at Bally reddin Mill. This place is
called, amongst the natives of the locality, Poulathney, orPowlatna,
as near as 1 can take down the sound. This may be a corruption, or
modification of Fulachta: its proximity to the river and to the lo-
cality of the ancient pass from Gowran would incline me to believe
that'it was the site of the battle, where the "two hundred men
were cut off by slaying and drowning." This same year another
victory was gained by Cearbhall and the people of Deisi, which is
thus entered : " A. D. — 876, A victory was gained by Cearbhall
and by the Deisi over the men of Munster, at Inneoin, where fell
Flannabhra, Lord ofGabhra, and many others along with him."
Inneoin is now called Mullinahone, about four miles south-west of
Callan.
We are now hastening to the close of this remarkable man's
career. It is forty years since he inaugurated his public mission
in a grand feat of arms at Cam-Brammit, where 1200 of the in-
vaders were slain in his rage. Since then the impetuous ardour of
youth had sobered down to the determined valour of manhood, but
now the matured prowess of his dauntless spirit subsides into in-
' Bolger was a common name about was most probably the name of the
Kilkenny down to a late period, and it chieftain of Outrath.
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activity before the gradual but steady advances of old age : seven
years elapse and his name is not recorded in the " Annals." The
foreigners lay waste the fair plains of his kingdom, and Cearbhall
does not appear to confront them ; Cuilan, his son and intended
successor, assumes the chieftain's mantle, and stands at the head of
his faithful clansmen, but this, the only record of his name, is also
his funeral panegyric, for we read, " Cuilan, son of Cearbhall, and
Maelfebhail, son of Muircheartach, were slain by the Norsemen, of
whom [i. e. of Cullen] was said," say the Annalists—
" May Cuilan be under the protection of God from the pains of hell
of ill flavour.
We did not think that Cuilen would [thus] have perished ; we
thought he would be king."
Whether this event preyed on the declining years of the vene-
rable old chieftain we are not informed, but in the following year,
namely, 885, he shares the common lot of humanity, and his life of
heroism and daring is closed by this simple record : " Cearbhall,
son of Dunghal, Lord of Osraighe, died."
Were we in possession of the historical statistics of Cearbhall
Mac Dunghall's reign, we might be able to prove that what the
Annalists call a " plundering" expedition, according to the language
of the time, was but a laudable intervention between some power-
ful feudatory and his helpless and unprotected subordinate, or a
raid into a neighbouring territory to chastise the native treason of
its Toparch for conniving at or assisting the invasion of the fo-
reigners. In the absence of those details, we can form our estimate
of his public reputation from the position of eminence to which he
was raised by the bishops of Ireland at the great convention of the
nobles and kings of the nation in Westmeath, when the Comharbs
of Patrick and Finnian invested him above all others with the ho-
norable privilege of announcing to the assembled potentates that
Malachy, King of Ireland, possessed the sympathy and co-opera-
tion of the Church in his efforts to effect harmony and reconcilia-
tion in the kingdom ; and this estimate is further sustained by
the more frequent and distinguished references to him in the Irish
Annals, than to any other king of his age. In those meagre en-
tries of our concise records, we have the outlines of a great charac-
ter. Had they been filled in by a biographer, or shaded into re-
lief by the artistic hand of a panegyrist, we should have O'Carroll
standing out in isolated prominence among the leaders of his time
as the father of his people, as an uncompromising patriot, and as
an heroic and gallant chieftain ; and if we require further proof of
this, we have it in the grand testimonial erected to his memory by
his descendants — namely, the identification with his name of the
seat of his royalty, the fairest plain of the ancient Osraigh, which
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they dignified with the title of " Cluain Ui Cearbhall," i. e. the
lawn or plain of O'Carroll, and thus perpetuated to future genera-
tions the name and the memory of Osraigh's greatest king ; and
hence the encomiums, like flowers strewn along a^hero's path, with
which O'Heerin decorates his memory, and which seem at first
sight as poetic hyperboles, but in reality are extracts from the
compilations of some contemporary bard who, in the exuberance
of his attachment, thus commemorates the virtues of his chief.
" O'Cearbhall, for whom the trees are ruddy," implying the general
jubilation of even the inhabitants of the vegetable kingdom on his
approach, and under whose rule the barbarians dare not devastate
the lair plains of Osraigh, and for whom, in consequence, the fields
are green and the trees are ruddy; and again "O'Cearbhall for
whom the sea is smooth," by which we are not to understand, as
O' Donovan facetiously but inconsiderately insinuates, that the Irish
kings, as well as the Irish saints, were invested with supreme com-
mand over the elements ; our poetic author here, by a species of
bardic licence, conveys his ideas of the welcome with which the
waves and the sea greet the presence of him who subdued the hordes
of seafaring barbarians who then inundated every other part of Ire-
land, but were kept at bay by the indomitable energy and superior
prowess of the vigilant commander of Osraigh. And then refer-
ring to the territory subject to his righteous rule, we are told that —
" From Cill Cainnigh, of the limestones,
To Sliabh G-caithle, of beauteous slope,
Is Cluain Ui-Cearbhaill,
Land of the green, rich, grassy carpet."
We have already identified this verdant land of O'Carroll as being
co extensive with the present barony of Shillelogher, the liberties
of the city of Kilkenny, and those parts of the barony of Gowran
lying along the base of the " Johnswell Mountains" called Claragh,
with its south-eastern continuation through Dunbell and Tulla-
hern.
(To be continued.)
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ANCIENT nags AND oiicnrms.
THE FEE-BOOK OF A PHYSICIAN OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY.
BY MAURICE LENIHAN, ESQ., M. R. I. A., AUTHOR OF THE " HISTORY
OF LIMERICK," ETC. ETC.
( Continued from p. 33.)
" Nicholas Henrici Whyte a febre Petechiali1 liberatus 21°
Octob.,
" Eadem Prascentoris uxor Goagh 23° Octobris, ....
" Guilielimus Jacob! Creagh 27° Octobris,
** Guilielimus Greatreekes praedictus 6° Novembris, .
" Nicholaus Stretch iunior p'dictus 9° Novembris, . . .
" Quidam degens in Lovgguir2 1 2° Novembris, ....
" Edmundus 0 Donnell hypocondriacus 16° Novembris,
"Jacobus Walters 21° Novembris, .
** Jacobus Marorrij 30° Novembris,
" Patricius Cassij pro uxore 3° Decembris, ......
" Dionisius Eonan 6° Decembris,
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mains of a celebrated Druid's circle, a
lake once filled with the bones of the
Irish Rein Deer, &c. See Valiancy's
"Tract," and Lenihan's "History;"
also Dr. Carte's essay read to the Royal
Dublin Society. Within the last few
years very great attention has been paid
to the antiquities in connexion with
Lough Gur, under the auspices, princi-
pally, of the landlord, the Count de Salis,
and" his son, John H. de Salis, Esq., of
Hillingdon-place, Sussex. To Mr. John
Fitz Gerald, of Holy Cross Cottage,
Lough Gur, a tenant on the estate, and
a highly intelligent, active, and ener-
getic lover of antiquities, very great
credit is due for his exertions in restor-
ing the Cir-Gor, or circle ; he has a
thorough knowledge of the locality, and
he is very attentive to all who visit it.
3 This was Morine. or Matilda Car-
roll, wife of Terence Mac I Brien of
Arra. A tombstone in the old church-
yard of Castletown Arra, county of Tip-
perary, bears the following curious in-
scription, which the present writer, ac-
companied by a feW friends, discovered,
and, as far as legible, copied for the
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14 Thomas o Donnell pro uxore 10° Decembris, .... 00 5 0
"Stephanus Arthurius p se 20° Decembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes Ryder pseudo Epus Laonensis1 23° Decembris, . 00 5 6
" Nicholaus Loftus prcedictus 28° Decembris, 00 6 0
•' Dominicus Vincenti Creagh 2° Januarij, 00 10 0
" Quidajuuenis Martini galviensis2 5° Januarij, .... 01 00 0
" Lucas Stretch 1 1° Januarij, 00 1 1 0
" Petrus Andrea Creagh 20° Januarij, 00 10 0
] Andrewes pistor Anglus 29° Januarij, .... 01 00 0
1 Guilielmus Martini Creagh 4° February, 00 10 0
' Margarita Danielis Arthuria 9° Februarij, 00 10 0
'Genetta Nyn Eyne 13° February, 00 5 0
4 Robertus Cromwell3 pro uxore 16° februarij, .... 00 3 0
' Jacobus Stackpoll cognomento Pillote pro uxore 23° febrij. 00 10 0
4 Richardus Gorgii Arthurius pro uxore 28° februarij, . . 00 6 0
( Thomas Jacobi \Vhyte pro uxore 2° Martij, 00 7 0
"Johannes mcXemarra de Daingenbreak4 pro uxore a
phthisi 1 diarrhoea correpta 11° Martij, 02 00 0
] Starkey5 Anglus de Drumeolan 12° Martij, ... 00 10 0
" Guaiterus Whyte Nicholai 20° Martij, 00 10 0
" Nicholaus Henrici Whyte prffldictus 23° Martij, 1622, . 01 2 0
" Suiiia honorarioru huius prasteriti anni est 58'* 7s' 6d'
pro quibus et casteris divini clementiae subsidiis
nobis indignis conceptis Omnipotent! Deo sit
honor, laus et gloria in seternu. Amen.
Anno Dni 1623.
"David Nicholai Roch 28° Martij, 1623, 00 10 0
u Johannes Skeolan pro filia 31° Martij, 00 8 0
"Guilielimus Greatreekes praedictus 12° Aprilis, .... 03 10 0
" Georgius Jacobi Rochfort pro uxore 15° Aprilis, ... 00 10 0
" Stephanus Jacobi Whyte 22° Aprilis, 00 15 0
14 Anna Creagh uxor lloberti Stones 27° Aprilis, .... 00 5 0
' Nicholaus/aning pro sorore 2° Maij, 00 10 0
Stephanus Arthurius pro se 8° Maij 00 10 0
" Robertus Davidis Ryce pro uxore 13 Maij, 00 10 0
'John Ryder, Protestant Bishop of not far from Quin Abbey, county of
Clare, and even now is a magnificent
the families of the Conne- specimen of the Tudor style of Architec-
inara Martins. ture
3 This is an old Irish name, some- » Starkey resided at Dromoland.
om well— now nearly extinct. county of Clare, which was not occupied
Mac Namaras, who built so by the O'Briens until many years after
any castles in Clare, nearly all held this period ; they having their residence
• own in Thomond up to the time of in the city of Limerick until the reign
Elizabeth; they aro now repre- of William III., in which reign they re-
sented by Colonel I- rancis Mac Namara, moved to Dromeolan, or Dromoland,
. L,.,of Lnmstymon House. Dangan- the beautifully situated castle of the
ack Castle is on the Ardsollus river, present Lord Inchiquin.
141
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" Johannes Ryderus1 pseudo Epus Laonensis 19° Maij, . . 00 10 0
" Edwardus Georgii Ryce pro se 24° Maij 00 11 0
" Nicholaus Lyllies pro uxore p' dicta 29° Maij, .... 00 1 1 0
" Daniell Arthurius junior dictus g filia 3° Junij, . ... 00 5 0
" Eobertus Queyn2 6° Junij, 00 3 0
" Thomas Daniell pro uxore 12° Junij, 00 15 0
1 Joanna Arthuria vidua Georgii Sexten 15° Junij, ... 00 5 0
' Stephanus Thomae Creagh pro uxore 20° Junij, .... 01 00 0
4 Johannes Eyderus pseudo Epus prsedic' 24° Junij, . . 00 6 0
' Euisdem Ryderi films 27° Junij, 00 1 1 0
' Georgius Andrewes pro uxore 3° Julij, 01 13 0
" Georgius Bartholomsei Stretch 6° Julij, 00 10 0
" Patricius Richardi Arthurius 9° Julij, 00 10 0
" Michael Mahowne 1 6° Julij, 00 5 0
< Nicholaus 0 Gavaine3 20° Julij, 00 6 0
' Rory O Gavaine 25° Julij, 00 10 0
« Quidam qui deget apud Disshert 27° Julij, 00 10 0
' Susanna Domina Richardi Southwell4 pro se 2° Augusti, . 00 10 0
' Robertus Rogeri Ryce pleuriticus 8° Augusti, .... 00 10 0
* Thomas Lodge pro uxore 13° Augusti, 00 8 0
'Robertus Ryce p'dictus 17° Augusti, ....... 00 10 0
" Lucas Stretch 22° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Robertus Ryce p'dictus 23° Augusti, 00 10 0
"Jasper Woulfe hypocondriacus "t in perineumonia propen-
sus 29° Augusti, 00 10 0
** Phillipus Ronan prsedictus 1° Septembris, 01 10 0
"Petrus Petri Creagh senior 10° Septembris, 00 11 0
" Guilielimus Greatreekes p'dictus 20° Septembris, . . . 03 10 0
" Thomas Harrisius eques auratus5^ se 22° Septembris, . . 01 10 0
i The name is spelled Rider in Cot- of Brian Boroimhe, and ends at 1643.
ton's " Fasti." He wrote, or compiled, 2 Quane, Quin, or Coyne, the family
" The State of the Diocese of Killaloe," name of the Earl of Dunraven.
presented to his Majesty's Commis- 3 O'Gavaine, or Gavin (sometimes
sioners, at Dublin, 1st July, 1622; a spelled O'Gabain). The Gavin family
copy of which is said to be preserved in is represented now by Major George
the Diocesan Library of Cashel. Cotton O'Halloran Gavin, of Kilpeacon Court,
states that it is copious, minute, and county of Limerick, M. P., for the city
interesting, and deserves to be printed. of Limerick; and maternal nephew of
He was anxious that the Protestant General O'Halloran, and grand nephew
clergy should make tbemselves ac- of Sylvester O'Halloran, the eminent
quainted with the Irish language, in surgeon and historian,
order to the better instruction of the 4 Sir Richard Southwell, the brother
natives. He procured the restoration of Sir Robert Southwell, was the man
of several rectories which had been who prognosticated the pregnancy of
alienated from the See by his prede- Queen Mary, and asserted the same,
cessor Maurice Mac 1 Brien Arra, the though falsely, in Parliament. See
father of Sir Turlough MacIBrien, who Thorpe's "Catalogue of the Southwell
is buried at Inniscaltra with his wife, MSS.," p. 308.
Eleanor Butler, the daughter of Wai- 5 Sir Thomas Harris, of Cornworthy,
ter Earl of Ormonde. His name appears in Devonshire, Knt., Sergeant at Law,
as a Puritan, in a list of Bishops of Kil- whose sister, Lady Anne Southwell, was
laloe, written in Irish, and preserved in maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth : she
Rome. This list begins with the period became wife of Sir Thomas Southwell,
142
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" Eius uxor seu Domina Harris pro se 24° Septembris, . . 02 C
-Johannes Lancaster p'dictus 30° Septembris,
« Cornelius O Dwyer 4° Octobris, 00 5
" Francissus Britt 9° Octobris, ni ?o S
" Geraldus Marshiale 16° Octobris, 01 1
" Robci tus Woulf pro filia 22° Octobris, 00
"Matrona Bland angla degens in Castletowne 28° Octobris, 01 10 0
•' Jacobus Andre* Creagh 31° Octobris,. . . . . . . 0010 0
" Jacobus Sarsfield pro uxore Ellina Ryce 2° Novembns, . 00 10 0
" Jacobus Stackpole Pillot1 dictus pro se 6° Novembns, . 00 10
" Maria Bourke uxor Johannis Woulfe £ se 9° Novembris, 00 05 0
" Jacobus Stackpoll pnedictus 15° Novembris, 0100 0
"GuilielimusDavidis Woulfe 20° Novembris, 00 5
" Thomas O Donnell 24° Novembris, 00 5 0
" Patricius Johannes Woulf 29° Novembris, ..... 00 10 6
41 Johannes Martini Woulf pro uxore 5° Decembris, ... 01 00 0
" Jacobus Johannis Stretch £ uxore 9° Decembris, ... 00 10
"Andreas Queyn 15° Decembris, 00 10 0
u Thomas Loftus 19° Decembris, 00 6 0
"Edmundus Stephani Roch 23° Decembris, 00 5 6
' Ee 0 Histine pro uxore 28° Decembris, 00 8 0
1 Catherina ni Ronane 9° January, 00 10 0
'Johannes Clayton anglus pro uxore 12° Januarij, . . . 01 00 0
• Robertus Myeagh2 degens at Killaloe 20° Januarij, . . 00 10 0
'Ellina Young 22° Januarij, . 00 10 0
' Edwardus Harrisius prim' justiciarius puinciae3 4° febr. . 01 00 0
v Nicholaus /airing pro se 9° februarij, 00 10 0
k Matrona Wilkinson pro amico 15° februarij, 00 10 0
k Johannes Johannis Stretch senator 22° februarij, . . . 00 10 0
1 Guilielimus O Quonyn pro se 24° februarij, 01 8 2
1 Matrona Eyuans angla £ filia 28° februarij, 00 11 0
' Franciscus Britt p'dictus |) uxore 9° Martij, 06 00 0
' Laurentius Clayton anglus <g uxore 12° Martij, .... 01 00 0
•David Corny u senator4 p se 18° Mar tij, 01 00 0
of Spixworth, near Norwich; Lady Anne logue of the Southwell MSS.," pp. 520,
\vasanexquisitepoetess. Her husband 521.
was sent by King James I. to Ireland ' A pilot, we presume, of which there
to promote the plantation of Munster, were not a few on the Shannon in those
where he was one of the council to the days.
President of that province, and seated 2 This name is frequently met in the
himself at Polylong, county of Cork. civic records of Limerick ; in more
Sir Thomas died June 12, 1626, leaving recent years it was written Meade.
two daughters, Elizabeth, Lady Dow- Meade's-quay is one of the quays of Li-
dall, and Frances, who married William merick.
Lenthall, Esq., of Lenthall, in Oxford- 3 Sir Edward Harris, third Judge of
shire, by whom she had two sons, Sir the King's Bench in Ireland, who died
John Lenthall, Marshal of the King's April 4, 1636.
Bench, who married Bridget, daughter * This name held a high place on the
of Sir Thomas Temple of Slow Bucks, Mayoralty, and Bailiffs, and Shrivalty
and the famous William Lenthall, Roll of Limerick for several years, corn-
Speaker of the Long Parliament, Master mencing in the fifteenth century. This
01 the Rolls, &c. See Thorpe's •• Cata- David Comyn was elected Mayor, held
143
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** Georgius Andrewes pseudo decanus p'dictus p filio 23°
Martii, 00 10 0
" Guilielimus Jacob! Creagh p uxore p'dicta ab Hydrope
uterina restituta 24° Martij, 1623, 00 10 0
"Suma honorarioru huius elapsi anni est
61'* 8s' Sdt ster. pro quibus et omnibus
caelestis ubertatis affluentis quibus in-
opiam nostram subleuare dignatur
Dns Deus, longe impares sed debi-
tas referrimus gratias.
Anno Dni 1624.
14 Johannes Johannis Stretch Senator 28° Martij. 1624, . . 00 10 0
" Guilielimus Greatreekes p'dictus 9° Aprilis, 03 0 0
" Inuitatus t illectus a complurimis magnatibus comigravi
Dubliniu quo perveni 14° Die Aprilis 1624 ubi medicina
fseliciter exercens quse sequuntur cu laude consequtus
sum.1
" Vxor seu domina Edwardi/isher equitis aurati 20° Aprilis, 00 1 0 0
" Dominicus Sarsfeeld Vicecomes de Kilmalock 27° Aprilis, 01 2 0
"Matrona Bently setatis prouectaa 2° Maij, 00 10 0
"Famulus Lancelothi Baronis Lowther2 6° Maij, . . . . 0011 0
" Beniamen Colume pro filio 12° Maij, . 00 15 0
"Alis Kenedy quse Domina Eliot dicebatur 16° Maij, . . 01 2 0
" Alis Arthur quae Matrona Mappas dicta est 22° Maij, . . 01 00 0
"Sr Galfridus Galwey baronetta3 nephriticus 27° Maij, . . 00 10 0
" Barbara Cusak uxor Edwardi Arthurij 2° Junij, ... 00 10 0
" Patritius Archibald! Atchesoni scotus 9° Junij, .... 00 10 0
" Alis Barnewall uxor Christoph : Whyte 15° Junij, ... 00 15 0
'* Rowlandus Delahoyde eques auratus4 20° Junij, . . . 00 10 0
" Matrona Walsh provectse setatis 24° Junij, 00 5 0
" Margareta Johannis Arthur virgo, 00 10 0
"Matrona Sarsfeelde de Sarsfeeldstowne £ filio 7° Julij, . . 0010 0
" Edwardus Arthurius senator Dubliniensis 12° Julij, . . 01 00 0
"Vidua Dillon degens in Proudstoune 15° Julij, . ... 00 15 0
" Guilielimus Scott pro prima uxore 21° Julij, .... 00 10 0
" Uxor Bichdfdi Do wde 29° Julij, 00 10 0
the office for one month, and was de- citizens of Limerick of his time. It is
posed for not taking the oath of Supre- he who is mentioned in Stafford's " Hi-
macy. See Lenihan's " History of Li- bernia Pacata" as having had a serious
merick." In "Notes and Queries" there dispute, when Mayor of Limerick, with
occurs a disquisition on the name of Care w, President of Munster, on account
Comyn. of his determined adherence to the prin-
1 This visit to Dublin led, as will ap- ciples of his religion (the Catholic), &c.
pear, to the subsequent good fortune of For full particulars of this dispute, and
Dr. Arthur. of Sir Geoffrey Galway, and the Gal-
2 Chief Baron of the Exchequer, an- way monument in St. Mary's Cathedral,
cestor of Sir John Lowther, first Lord Limerick, see Lenihan's " History of
Londsdale. Limerick," &c.
3 Sir Geoffrey Galway, Bart., and a 4 Moylare was the residence of Sir
lawyer, was one of the most famous Rowland Delahoyde.
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" Georgius Bodley pro uxore 9° Augusti, 01 00 0
" Charolus /eeld 12° Augusti, 06 9 0
"Patritius'Hamlin pro nepote 14° Augusti, ^ . .... 00 9 0
" Guilielimus Geraldinus studiosus Collegii Dubliniensis
18° Augusti 01 00 0
" Maria Roch uxor Johannis Stanley 24° Augusti, ... 01 2 0
" Richardus Geraldinus clericus apud Mr. Greniham 29°
Augusti, 00 10 0
" Uxor Johannis Nolan quo3 erat vidua Mapas 2° Septembris, 00 1 1 0
4- Nicholas Barry mercator 8° Septembris, 00 8 0
" Johannes Talbot generosus1 12° Septembris,1 01 00 0
" Guilielmus Dillon de/lentstowne 16° Septembris, . . . 00 10 0
41 Robertus Kennedy senator Dubliniensis 20° Septem-
bris, 00 11 0
" Kobertus Colume mercator anglus 25° Septembris, . . 00 10 0
44 Virgo Browne 29° Septembris, 00 6 0
" Vetus Matrona Bysse pro nepote Johanne 4° Octobris, . 01 00 0
" Uxor Johannis Veale amanuensis Proregis 8° Octobris, . 00 4 0
" Alis Barnevil pradieta qua? matrona Whyte 10° Octobris, 00 8 0
44 Vetus matrona Bysse prsedicta pro eodem nepote 13° Ocr
tobris, 00 10 0
u Thymotheus Thomson clericus seu scriba 16° Octobris, . 01 00 0
" Thomas Dickson 20° Octobris, 00 10 0
"quidam faber lignareus 21° Octobris, 00 2 6
14 Johannes Bulger 23° Octobris, 00 5 0
" Johannes Giggines 26° Octobris, 00 10 0
44 Maria Koch matrona Stanleij p'dicta pro famulo 29° Oc-
tobris, 00 11 0
" Quida degens apud Nase 31° Octobris, 00 4 0
4 4 Franciscus Bloundle eques Auratus 3° Novembris, ... 01 2 0
" Christopherus Brysse pro prima uxore Maria Whyte 6° No. 01 00 0
4' Franciscus Bloundle proadictus 8° Novembris, .... 00 11 0
" Thomas Badleo 10° Novembris, 00 5 0
4i Christopherus Brysse pro praadicta uxore 12° Novembris, 00 10 0
41 Christopherus /eelde pro uxore Margarita Mappas 13° No-
vembris, 00 5 0
44 Robertus Bysse scriba 15° Novembris, 00 10 0
"quidam degens apud Hoath 16° Novembris, 00 4 0
" Albion Luereth fecialis pro uxore 16° Novembris, . . 01 02 0
"Uxor Richard! Do wde p'dicta 19° Novembris, .... 00 5 0
41 Albion Leuereth pro uxore p'dicta 19° Novembris, . . . 00 12 0
44 Matrona Browne 23° Novembris, 00 1 1 0
4 Dudleus Northon eques auratus 26° Novembris, . . . 01 00 0
Christopherus /eelde p p'dicta uxore 29° Novembris, . 00 6 0
Dudleus Northon p'dictus 29° Novembris, 01 00 0
14 Matrona Cusake ultra pontem degens 3° Decembris, . . 00 8 0
T 1iKT?isi ™e7JiJkcly' is tho Sir John p- Median's « Fate and Fortunes of the
•I Malahide, who is said to have Earls of Tyrone and T yrconnell," pp.
)oen mixed up in the rebellion of Hugh 227-341 . Sir John was an ancestor of
) Neill and Rory O Donnell. Soe Rev. Lord Talbot de Malahide.
145
£ s. d.
" David Tyrry Corkagiensis centurio 7° Decembris, . . . 00 10 0
" Qutedam mulier degens citra pontem 9° Decembris, . . 00 5 0
" Patritius Mapas Senator Dubliniensis 9° Decembris, . . 00 10 0
''Michael Browne mercator 12° Decembris, 01 00 0
44 Guilielimus Greatreekes p'dictus 15° Decembris, . . . 01 00 0
"Johannes Queyn mercator 18° Decembris, 00 5 0
"Robertus Bysse scriba p'dictus p famulo 18° Decembris, . 00 10 0
"Moriartus 0 Dowline de Athey hypocundriachus 24° Dec., 02 10 0
u Patritius /arsfeeld de Comitatu Kildare paralisi correptus
27° Dec., 00 14 0
14 Thomas yietcher degens apud Newrie in Vltonia 29°
Decemb., 00 10 0
" Accersitus su ad Domina Amey Conwey vidua Fulki
Conwey quse degebat apud Lysnagearugh in Vltonia
quse p se 1 ancilla honoraria sua Alisia Tutesbury dedit
mini 20° Janua., 20 00 0
" Symon Eichardson ibidem degens 22° Januarij, . . . 00 10 Q
** Sr Arthur M° Ennis Vicecomes de lueagh hepatis Discra-
sia calida laborans 25° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Edmundus O Downegaine Doctor rt electus Episcopus
Dunensis Dysenteria a retorrida bile laborans 27° Ja-
nuarij, 00 10 0
" Thomas /letcher p'dictus apud Newrey 29° Januarij, . . 00 10 0
"Ifatrona Whyte de Dunedalke, 2° februarij, 00 10 0
" Thomas Whyte de Warde pthisicus 9° februarij, ... 01 00 0
" Gualterus Geraldinus mercator 10° februarij, .... 00 6 0
" Duodecimo februarij discessi Dublinio reuersus Lynlicu
visurus uxorem, matre, t familia ubi comoratus su ad
primu die Aprilis subsequentis et obtinui a diuersis asgris
ad 24m Martij 1624, 03 10 0
" Suma honorarioru huius elapsi ani est 861' 9s' ster.,
pro quibus et singulari sua dementia erga me
qua dignatus est me ignotuni t peregrinum
cunctis gratu % acceptabileni reddere in
provincia aliena, innumeras gratias Deo
Omnipotenti refero ex animo.
Anno Dm 1625
" A 24° Martij ad fine illius mensis Lynlici obtinui, ... 03 05 0
" Ex primo Aprilis afio 1625 profectus sum Dubliniu ubi
6° Aprilis uxor Christiani Borr belgas dedit mihi, . . 00 15 0
" Thomas Jankson scriba 8° Aprilis, 00 1 0 0
" Maria Roch matrona Stanleii p p'dicto/amulo 10° April, . 00 5 6
** Christianus Borr mercator belgicus Dublinij degens
16° April, 01 00 0
" Adam Bechaine j> filio 17° Aprilis, 00 9 0
" Eius Mater uidua Bechaine p se 26° Aprilis, 00 5 6
14 Jacobus Byrrin pro uxore 29° Aprilis, 00 5 0
'4 quida ruri degens pro inspectione eius vrinae 29° Aprilis, 00 2 6
41 Chriatianus Borr p'dictus p se 8° Maij, 01 00 0
146
£ s. d.
"Phillipus Hore senior de Kilshaglane 12° Maij, .... 00 12 0
" Adam Bechaine p'dictus pro se 13° Maij, 00 10 0
44 Domina Amey Conwey praedicta pro sua nepote Johanne
Borne hypochundriaco 15° Maij 03 00 0
"Quidam Russell ruridegens 17° Maij, 00 2 6
" Johannes Stanleii senior pro se 20° Maij, 01 00 0
" Domina Amey Conwey p'dicta pro se 24° Maij, .... 02 00 0
41 Georgius Bodly p'dictus g filio Thoma 27° Maij, ... 00 6 0
44 Genetta ancilla Dominse Sexten pro se 28° Maij, . . . 00 5 6
4« Phillipus Hore p'dictus pro genero suo Bath. 29° Maij, . 00 10 0
"Barnevill paralyticus citra po tern 30° Maij, 04 00 0
44 Guilielimus Haly Senator Lymicensis cholera morbo peri-
clitatus 1 liberatus 31° Maij, 00 10 0
" Paulus DufF mercator 1° Junij, 01 00 0
" Isrnael CJynser 3° Junij, 00 5 6
" Kolandus Reynalds belgicus 5° Junij, 03 00 0
44 Tobias belgicus 7° Junij, 00 5 6
"Moriartus O Dowline de Athey p'dictus 10° Junij, . . . 02 00 0
" Georgius Smyth de Athey pro uxore 12° Junij, . . . 00 15 0
" llichardus Dowde pro se 15° Junij, 01 00 0
41 Maria /ish pro ancilla sua 17° Junij, 00 10 0
" Lewis de Nase 24° Junij, 00 5 6
44 Edwardus Dowdall de Droghedaha mercator 27° Junij, . 02 00 0
44 Christinas Borr p'dictus pro nauclero batauo 1° Julij, ..0120
44 Hollywood de Tartaine pro uxore 14° Julij, 00 5 6
"Jacobus Browne scriba 16° Julij, 02 00 0
" Henricus Gerraldinus Anasarticus 24° Julij, .... 02 10 0
' Domina Roper pro ancilla honoraria 27° Julij, .... 00 10 0
4 Chris topherus Whyte pro servo 2° Augusti, 00 10 0
' Eius uxor Alis Barneville p'dicta 6° Augusti, .... 00 4 4
4 Edmundus llewes pro uxore 12° Augusti, 00 10 0
4 Matrona Russell vidua p se 17° Augusti, 00 5 0
1 Christopherus Tankard pro se 23° Augusti, 00 3 0
* Quidam degens ruri 25° Augusti, 00 4 6
' Edmundus Hewes p'dictus 29° Augusti, 00 5 6
' 30° Augusti profectus sum Lyrnicum ubi apud uxore
comoratus ad Decimum diem insequentis Martij % a non-
nullis aegris interea temporis obtinui £21 85. 6d., . . 21 8 6
" Tune autem Dns Jacobus Vssherus doctor t pseudo-primas
Ardmachanus, ex Anglia nuper reuersus, ubi diu cu
morbo graui reluctatus, cui profligando regiorum medi-
corum operam sufhis expensis imploratam nequicqam
expertus, ad me accersitum misit. Perueni ad eum Drogh-
edahoe, in sua aula comorantem, 22° Die Martij 1625.
Deinde audita ipsius relatione, t perspectis clarissimoru
medicorum rescriptis, et serio perpensis symptomatibus
qua) per totius morbi historia oriebantur ; ex his mini
videbar explorata habuisse ancipitis t indies inualaesen-
tis morbi causam, hactenus complures viros clarissimos
latentem ; qua ubi facto coniecturse mese Iseui periculo
perfecta consequtum me fuisse cognoui, confidenter eius
147
£ s. d.
curam in me suscepi ; nee me vsquam spes /efellit.
Huius grauis % contumacis morbi regiorum t clarissimoru
Angliae medicoru opera eludentis cura, in tarn eminenti
t proper eruditione conspicuo homine, me inter Anglos
(quibus catholicse religionis causa exosus eram) celebrem
% gratu reddidit.
"Suma honorarioru huius preteriti ani est £61 5s. 4.d.
pro quibus et cseteris beneficijs qua? de thesauris muni-
ficentise diuinsB imrneriti indies suscipimus, me-
ritas sed longe impares gratias sumo Deo bo-
noru omniu largitori rependimus.
Anno Dni 1626
" Guilielmus Hilthon Judex curiaa Eegiaru facultatu pro
uxore sua Dni Primatis sorore 26° Marti'i, 01 00 0
u Quida mercator Pontanensis Desh cognominatus 2° Ap., . 00 10 0
"Justiciarus Mayard pro uxore 3° Aprilis,, 01 00 0
" Christianus Borr p'dictus pro uxore 5° Aprilis, ... 01 2 0
" Sr Christopherus Shiptorp Justiciarius2 7° Aprilis, . . 01 00 0
" Phrebe Challiner uxor Primatis pro se 9° Aprilis, ... 01 00 0
" Vetus Domina Hoath nupta tune Sr Eoberto Newcomen
11° Apr., 01 2 0
" Sr Johannes Vachaine de Londonderry 12° Aprilis, . . 01 00 0
" Eadem domina Hoath p'dicta 13° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" 14° Aprilis concomitatus sum Dmn Primatem in insula
Lambeij1 dictam, ubi remoti a turba visitantium, incu-
buimus gnauitur t vacauimus curse t profligationi con-
tumacissimi morbi ad 8m diem mensis Junij subsequetis :
tune aute euicto morbo, T> ipso pristine sanitati resti-
tute prseter compluriu expectatione, reuersi sum9 Dub-
liniu, ubi a Proregi t caateris regni Ordinibus nobis
obuia euntibus, honorifice suscepti fuimus 9° Junij. Tune
ego Proregi Domino Vicecomiti faulkland indaganti con-
silium profectionis nostra3 in illam Insulam, t totius
morbi historiam, et in quibus Eegij medici errauerint, ita
philosophice exposui, ut abunde sibi satisfactum fuisse
ingenue fateretur; t omne pristine inuidise t maleuo-
lentise ansam a me procul propelleret. Et exinde me
sibi t charissimis suis omnibus in medicu assumpsit.
Dns Primas pro impensa mea opera 14° Junij dedit
mihi,3 51 00 0
"Moriartus ODowline de Atheij p'dictus 19° Junij, . . . 01 00 0
1 Lambey belonged to the Ussher fa- Privy Council of the province of Mun-
mily. For a curious story about Ussher ster, and died October 2, 1636, aged 63
and Lambey, see D' Alton's "Co. Dublin." years. She wrote a poetical epistle, con-
2 Sir Christopher Sibthorpe wrote a sisting of one hundred and twenty-one
4to book "against Popery." Lady Anne lines, to Bernard Adams, Protestant
Southwell, on the death of her husband, Bishop of Limerick from 1604 to 1636.
Sir Thomas, married Henry Sibthorpe, 3 These details are all translated in
Serjeant-Major, and member of the Lenihan's «' History of Limerick,"
148
£ s. d.
" 18° Junij discessi Dublinio, reuersurus Ly&ieG ubi co-
raoratus sum ad 12m diem subsequentis Novembris et
interea temporis nb ffigris diuersis consequtus sum £15
18s. 2d.i et postea profectus sum Dubliniu ubi quse
sequuntur adeptus sum, . . 15182
"Johns decanus Casselliensis1 16° Nouembris, 00 11 0
"Sr Edwardus fitz Harris baronetta 18° Nouembris, . . 00 10 0
" Georgius Bourk Limffiicensis mercator 4° Decembris, . 00 5 0
"Patritius Mapas prnedictus 7° Decembris, 00 1 1 0
<•' Christopherus Whijte p'dictus 9° Decembris, .... 00 10 0
" Guilieliinus Greatreekes p'dictus 7° Decembris, pro famulo, 00 1 1 0
"Tarpoll de Droghedaha musicus 18° Decembris, ... 00 5 0
" Quidain Delahoyde Drohedahensis mercator pthisicus
22° Decembris, 01 00 0
"Thomas Browne gener, Johanis Chijvers iurisperiti 1°
Januarij, 02 00 0
"Dns Primas Vssher procdictus7° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Richardus Bryse senator Drohedahensis a dissenteria liber -
atus practer spem complurium 10° Januarij, .... 02 00 0
" Ellin falloun De Nourraghbeg in Comitatu Kildar' vidua
a morbo diuturno 1 molesto liberata 9° februarij, . . 05 00 0
"Jacobus Henrici Geraldinus 10° februarij, 00 10 0
" Jacobus Edmundi Byrrin 10° februarij, 00 5 0
" Georgius Detionish2 senator Dublinensis pro uxore hijdrope
detenta ob intempestiua lochioru alboru a partu sup-
pressionem 13° februarij, 01 00 0
' This was Lewis Jannes (called
Jones by Cotton) a native of Monmouth-
shire, Wales, educated at Oxford ; he
was presented on June 16, 1607. He had
leased the revenues of his deanery to a
son of Archbishop Miler Magrath, ac-
cording to the Report of the Regal Visi-
tors of 1615. He was recommended by
Archbishop Ussher to Bishop Laud in
1629, as a fit person to succeed to the
Archbishopric of Cashel, then vacant,
being sixty-nine years old, twenty-two
of which he was Dean. He restored the
cathedral, and established a choir in
Cashel, which before his time had been
quite extinguished. The recommenda-
tion did not prevail ; but Dean Jannes
was raised to the bishopric of Killaloe
soon afterwards, viz., in 1633. His
name appears as a Puritan in the Irish
list of Bishops preserved at Rome. See
supra, note ', p. 141. He reached the age
of eighty- six years, and two of his sons
became bishops. See Cotton's "Fasti."
The family of bishop Jahnnes appears
to have continued connected with Kil-
laloe for many years. A gentleman of
the name of Richard Janns was Register
of the Consistorial Court of that diocese
in 1773. I have before me an adminis-
tration license signed by him, in his ex-
cellent handwriting. In the nave of the
Cathedral Church of Killaloe, a mural
monumental slab of white marble con-
tains the following inscription : —
Sacred
to the Memory of
Frances
daughter of Richard Jannes Esq
of Killaloe and Cragleigh
near Ennis
who died 27th February 1846
aged 88 years.
This tablet is erected by
Her nephew Captain Charles Jannes
Richard, we see from this tablet, wrote
his name "Jannes."
2 The Devenishes of Castle Devenish,
county of Westmeath, are an ancient
149
£ a. a.
" Richardus Dowdes p'dictus pro farnulo 16° februarij, . . 00 6 0
"Stephanus Edmundi Sexten iurisperitus ex hepatis con-
tumaci et obscura obstructions hydropicus t Ictericus
factus 17° februarij, 01 00 0
11 Georgius Doeuinish p praedicta uxore 18° februarij, . . 05 00 0
"Georgius Bodleij p'dictus p fiiio Thoma 23° februarij, . 00 10 6
"Guilielimus Scott p'dictus £ matre 27° februarij, ... 00 10 0
" Jdem p filia variolis detenta 3° Martij 00 5 0
"Edwardus Arthurius senator pro uxore Barbara 12°
Martij, 03 00 0
" Sr Gualterus Copinger pro famulo 13° Martij, .... 00 5 0
" Sr Thomas Roper Vicecomes Baltinglas pro uxore poda-
grica 19° Martij, 02 00 0
"Idem pro eadem 23° Martij, 1626, 00 10 0
Suma honorariorum huius elapsi a n i est
£105 6s. 8d. ster. pro quibus t casteris donis
quibus necessitatibus nostris subvenit, quantas
tenuitas nostra fert, Deo inexhausto bonoru
fonti gratias offerimus.
Ano Dni 1627.
"Guilielimus Higgins £ uxore 28° Martij 1627, .... 00 10 0
"Thomas Johannis Arthurius p famulo febricitante 31°
Martij, 00 10 0
" Quida citra pontem 4° Aprilis, 00 10 0
"Sr Henricus Tuchborne1, in tabe lapsus a ferino Catharrho
in pulmones delabente eos<j exulcerante, 9° Aprilis, . . 00 10 0
"Matrona Richards vidua 12° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 14° Aprilis, 00 10 0
"Matrona Richards prdicta 17° Aprilis, 00 10 0
"Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 19° Aprilis, 00 1 1 0
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 24° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Matrona Richards p'dicta 23° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 25° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Thomas Casshill scriba |> uxore per tres integros menses mel-
ancholica aypvTrvoia [sic] laborante t restituta 28° Aprilis, 0110 0
" Uxor Christopher! Whyte p'dicta p filio 29° Aprilis, . . 00 5 0
" Sr Henricus p'dictus 1° Maij, 00 10 0
" Sr Henricus Tutchborne p'dictus 3° Maij, 00 10 0
" Sr Henricus p'dictus 5° Maij, 00 10 0
family of that county. Their burial Ireland. The grandson of this gentle-
place is in St. Mary's Church, Athlone, man was created a Baronet, and after-
where the tombs of the family with ar- wards elevated to the Peerage of Ire-
morial bearings, &c., may be seen. land in 17 15, as Baron Ferrard, of Fer-
1 Sir Henry Titchborne. Burke rard, in the county of Louth, a dignity
(John), in the " General and Heraldic that expired with himself. Burke must
Dictionary," &c. (1830, p. 769), states be in error when he asserts that Sir
that Sir Henry was engaged against the Henry died in 1621, as Dr. Arthur's
rebels in Ireland, temp. James the First, Fee Book proves that he attended him
and founded a branch of the family in in 1627, and afterwards.
150
£ s. d.
" Jacobus Byrrin p'dictus puxore 6° Maij, 00 5 0
"Domma Anna Baltinglas p'dicta 8° Maij, 0100
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 10° Maij,
•• Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 12° Maij
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 14° Maij,
"Sr Robertus Newcomen senior 16° Maij, 00 10 0
"Sr Robertus Newcomen p'dictus 17° Maij, 00
" S' Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 17° Maij, 00
" Sr Henricus p'dictus 19° Maij, 00 10 0
" Johannes Leynch sutor 20° Maij, 00 5 0
"Sr Henricus p'dictus 22° Maij,
" Sr Robertus Newcomen p'dictus 24° Maij, 00 10 0
" Sr Henricus p'dictus 25° Maij, 00 10 0
"Vetus Matrona Brysse [sic] p'dicta p nepote Johanne
p'dicto 26° Maij, 00 7 0
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus 28° Maij, 00 10 0
" Dominus Henricus /aulkland prorex pro filio primoge-
nito 30° Maij, 02 00 0
"Idem prorex pro eodem filio 31° Maij, 01 00 0
"Johannes Veldon iurisperitus p nepote Deesh 1° Junij, . 00 5 0
"Idem prorex p eodem filio 1° Junij, 01 00 0
"Matrona Orpin pro se 2° Junij, 00 8 0
" Idem prorex pro eodem filio 3° Junij, 02 00 0
" Christopherus Whyte p'dictus p filio 4° Junij, .... 00 10 0
"Idem prorex p eodem filio 4° Junij, 01 00 0
"Idem prorex p p'dicto suo filio 5° Junij, 01 00 0
" Idem prorex p p'dicto nepote 8° Junij, 01 00 0
" Doctor Robertus Vssher p ancilla 9° Junij, 00 7 0
" Idem prorex p nepote 1 filio p'dictis sanitati restitutis
10° Junij, 03 00 0
"Thomas Cashell p p'dicta 14° Julij [sic] 1627, .... 01 00 0
" Margarita Mar tine uxor Jacobi Duff 15° Junij, .... 00 5 0
"Robertus Newcome iunior 16° Junij, 00 10 6
"Idem pro se 16° Junij, 00 10 0
" Sir Henricus Tuchborne p'dictus |) filio Beniamen ab ob-
structionibus visceru t mesenterij liberate 20° Junij, . 02 4 0
"Jacobus Byrrin p'dictus p uxore 22° Junij, 00 10 0
" Domina Baltinglass p'dicta p filio Johanne 24° Junij, . . 01 00 0
" Moriartus O Dowlin p'dictus 29° Junij, 01 00 0
"Jacobus Duff nephriticus 31° Junij, 00 10 0
"Domina Pattiplace p se 2° Julij, 00 10 0
" Johannes Veale amanueusis proregis p filio 4° Julij, . . 0010.0
"Johannes pseudo decanus Cassheliensis p'dictus 6° Julij, . 00 10 6
" Jacobus Berminghame p se 8° Julij, 01 2 0
"Matrona Newcomen uxor Thorna? 10° Julij, 00 10 0
"Margareta Vssher virgo pro se 12° Julij, 00 10 0
44 Georgius Deuenish senator p uxore hydrope Anasartica
correpta ab intempestiva lochioru alboru a partu sup-
pressione ex concilio cuiusda ignaraj obstetricis 14° Julij, 05 00 0
4< Matrona Newcomen prsedicta 16° Julij, 00 10 0
151
£ 5. d.
" Margareta Vssher p'dicta laborans debilitate oculoru ex su-
perfluis humoribus serosis in eos delabentibus 17° JuL, 00 10 6
"Matrona Newcomen prsedicta 19° Julij, 00 10 0
" Morganus O Bryen famulus Mri. Wiseman 21° Julij, . . 00 11 0
" Guilielimus Hilthon p'dictus 23° Julij, 01 00 0
" Vicecomes Henricus faulkland prorex lienis obstruction!
contumaci obnoxius 27° Julij, 10 00 0
" Margarita Ysher prgedicta 29° Julij, 00 10 0
"Guilielimus Greatreekes prsedictus 31° Julij, .... 02 10 0
" Johanes Southwell tonsillaru repentina inflamatione pene
strangulatus 3° Augusti, 10 00 0
" Alisia Barnevil uxor Christopheri Whyte p'dict' 5° Aug., 00 10 0
" Johannes Southwell p'dictus 7° Augusti, 00 10 0
'Domina Thomse Rhadrom equitis 9° Augusti, .... 00 10 0
' Mr Powley febricitans 10° Augusti, 00 10 0
' Jacobus By rrin praedictus p uxore 1 2° Augusti, . . . 00 10 0
'Domina Anthonij Brabazon equitis £ filia 14° Augusti, . 00 10 0
'Doctor Robertus Vssher, p'dictus 16° Augusti, .... 0 10 0
" 18° die Augusti 1627 decessi Dublinio Lynlicu, ubi com-
moratus fui ad I6m die Octobris t a nonullis aegris interea
temporis obtinui £15 9s. 6d. ster. Deinde reversus Dub-
liniu adeptus sum quse sequuntur, 1596
" Dfis Baltinglass <g sua uxore 23° Octobris, 04 00 0
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne «p filio Beniamen p'dicto 26° Oct. 00 10 0
" Idem Henricus £ eodem 28° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Idem Henricus p eodem 29° Octobris, 0 10 0
"Mr Adams pro uxore 31° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Margareta Vssher Domina Beuerly Newcome 3° Noveb. . 00 10 0
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne £ p'dicto filio 5° Novembris, . . 00 10 0
" Mr Weary mercator Scotus 7° Novembris, 00 8 0
" Domina Newcomen p'dicta 8° !N"ovembris, 00 10 0
u Sr Henricus Tuchborne ^ p'dicto filio 10° Novembris, . 0010 0
"Mr Adams p'dictus £ uxore p'dicta 12° Novembris, . . 00 10 0
11 Sr Henricus Tuchborne £ eodem filio 13° Novemb., . . . 00 10 0
" Mr Barringthon 15° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Sr Carolus Coute1 senior a<ypv7rwa \sic\ sine febre ad in-
saniam fere vexatus 1 80 Novembris, 02 00 0
"Edwardus Arthurius senator Dubliniensis nephritic? 20°
Nov., 00 11 0
" Symon Esmonds pro nepote 23° Novembris, 00 5 0
" Sussana citra pontem 23° Novembris, 00 2 6
" Johannes Southwell p'dictus pro se 25° Novembris, . . 01 00 0
" Sr Henricus Tuchborne 5 filio p'dicto 27° Novembris, . 00 10 0
" Nathaniell Cathelin £ uxore 30° Novembris, .... 00 11 0
1 This is the same Sir Charles Coote, of Owen Roe O'Neill. He was the
whose exploits in the Great Rebellion first settler in Ireland of the family, and
of 1641 are but too well known, and the immediate ancestor of the noble
whose terrible death by murder is de- houses of Coote, Earls of Mountrath,
scribed in the MS. in the Library of and Coote, Lords Castle Coote, both
Trinity College, Dublin, called "Apho- titles now extinct. He is represented
rismical Discovery of Treasonable Fac- by Sir C. Coote, of Ballyfin, Queen's
tion," &c., ascribed to the secretary County.
152
£ s. d.
» Sr Carolus Coute p'dictus 4° Decembris, 02 00 0
" Mr Barringthon p'dictus 5° Decerabris, .'.....
" Matrona Meryweather 7° Decembris,
"Moriartus Bowline p'dictus 9° Decembris 0010 0
I Matrona Meryweather p'dicta 11° Decembris, ....
1 Sr Gaulterus Copinger p famulo 14° Decembris, ....
' M' Barringthon p'dictus 14° Decembris, 00 10 0
'Domina Baltinglas p'dicta p filio Johanne 16° Decembris, .
«Mr Barringthon p'dictus 18° Decembris, 0010
' Sr Carolus Coute p'dictus 20° Decembris, 02 00
' Henricus Crafton p famulo 23° Decembris, 00 5
II Domina Baltinglas pro p'dicto filio 23° Decembris, ... 00 10 0
" Robertus Meredith p filia Greisell 24° Decembris, ... 00 10 0
" Matrona Thomsc Newcomen p'dicta 29° Decembris, . . . 00 10 0
"Comitissa de Tyrconnell1 5° Januarij, 02 0 0
" Sr Johannes Vachane eques p'dictus 9° Januarij, . ... 00 10 0
" Matrona Meryweather p'dicta 14° Januarij, 00 1 0 0
" Comitissa de Tyrconnell p'dicta 20° Januarij, . , . . 02 00 0
" Quidii ruri degens 24° Januarij, 00 2 6
" Margarita Johafiis Arthur nupta Terentio Cochlaine2 29° Ja., 00 1 1 0
" Matrona Greenhame citra pontem p ancilla 2° Februarii, . 00 05 0
1 Comittissa Tyrconnell p'dicta 9° februarij, 02 00 0
' Margarita Arthur at Cochlaine 15° februarij, . . . . 00 11 0
* Matrona Greinhame p'dicta p eade ancilla 16° februarij, . 00 5 0
' Stephanus Sexten p'dictus 20° februarij, 01 10 0
' Dominicus faning p'dictus 28° februarij, 00 11 0
" Comittissa Tyrconnell p'dicta 4° Martij, 01 6 0
" Henricus Vicecomes/aulkland Prorex p'dictus 9° Martij, 10 00 0
' Guilielimus Brabazon Comes Midiae 15° Martij, . ... 01 00 0
' Gcorgius Bodley mercator p'dictus 18° Martij, . . . . 00 10 0
' Comes Midiae p'dictus podagricus 20° Martij, .... 01 00 0
'Idem Comes 21° Martij, 01 00 0
'Matrona Dillon 22° Martij, 00 6 6
'Comittissa Tyrconnell p'dicta 23° Martij, 02 00 0
'Domina Johannis Bruerton 23° Martij, 00 10 0
" Matrona Beyss vidua mater Johannis Bey ss 24° Martij, . 00 10 0
1 Sec " The Fate and Fortunes of the the estate of Cartown, County Kildare,
Earls of Tyrconnell and Tyrone," by the and was created a baronet of Ireland,
Rev.C. P.Meehan,M. R. I. A. This lady 4th February, 1622, was a scion of the
•was a daughter of the Earl of Kildare, House of Malahide. He married Alison,
and married, after O'Donnell's death, daughter of John Netterville, of Castle-
Nicholas Barnwall. In Sir Bernard bar, County Meath ; he died 16th March,
Burke's Extinct Peerages of Ireland, we 1633, leaving issue Robert (Sir), of Car-
find the Tyrconnell creations in the fol- .town, Bart., who married Grace, daugh-
lowing order :_ ter of George Calvert, Lord Bateman.
Tyrconnell, 1603, O'Donnell. 2 See Curry's "MSS. Materials" for
1622, Talbot. a dedication to Terence M'Coghlani(then
1663, Fitzwilliam. Lord of Delvin), dated 1627, of a trans-
1685, Talbot. lation of the Annals of Clonmacnoise,
1689, Talbot. by his relative, Connell M'Geoghagan.
1718, Brownlow. The original of the M'Coghlans' pedi-
1761, Carpenter. gree is given in Professor Curry's Ap-
William Talbot (1622), who acquired pendix.
153
£ s. d.
" Domina Breuerthon p'dicta 24° Martij 00 10 0
" Omnia ses?c' elapso hoc ano accepta pervenerunt ad sum-
ma £140 3s. Od. ster. pro quibus et aliis omnibus
subsidiis de thesauris suse munificentige nobis
elargitis nos nostra^ omnia sumo Deo
vouemus ex animo.
Anno Dni 1628.
" Domina Baltinglas p'dicta pro filia 26° Martij ano Dni
1628, 01 00 0
" Domina Morison ejus soror £ se 28 Martij, 01 00 0
" Comes Midise Brabazon p'dictus 30 Martij, 01 00 0
" Matrona Greinham p'dicta p famulo 1° Aprilis, .... 00 5 0
" Sr Johannes Breuerthon pro uxore sua p'dicta 6° Aprilis, 01 00 0
" Comes Midise p'dictus 7° Aprilis, 01 00 0
" Vidua Petitte 9° Aprilis, 00 11 0
" Comes Midice p'dictus 11° Aprilis, 01 00 0
" Sr Johannes Breuerthon p uxore p'dicta 14° Aprilis, . . 01 00 0
" Sr Thomas Nugent baronett £ se 1 8° Aprilis, .... 01 00 0
" Richardus Doude p'dictus 21 Aprilis, 00 5 0
"Anna Neill Ancilla Matronse Vssher 21° Aprilis, ... 00 5 0
"William Hamlin de Drohedaha 21° Aprilis, 00 5 0
" Sr Guilielmus Stewart pro se 25° Aprilis, 01 00 0
" Michahell Dweyn de Ultonia 28° Aprilis, 00 11 0
" Sr Johannes Neutreuaile 30° Aprilis, , 00 10 0
"Matheus Fourde pro filio 3° Maij, 00 10 0
" Dns Vicecomes Neutreuaile «g uxore 6° Maij, . . . . 01 00 0
" Matrona Pitts iunior 8° Maij, 00 10 0
"Guilielimus Hilthon p'dictus 11° Maij, 01 2 0
"Patricius Mappas distillationibus obnoxius 14° Maij, . . 00 11 0
"Matheus Reade famulus Edwardi Arthurij 17° Maij, . . 00 5 0
"Faghna O'Ferrale 17° Maij, 00 10 0
" Guilielimus Hilthon p'dictus p uxore ferunculo in mammis
obnoxia, 01 00 0
"Vicecomes de Baltinglas p sua Diia p'dicta 23 Maij, . . 01 00 0
" Johannes Stanley £ filio 25° Maij, 00 10 0
"Vidua soror Dni Neutreuiel p se 25° Maij, 00 7 0
"Sr Robertus King junior p sua Domina 28° Maij, ... 01 00 0
"Jdem pro eadem 29° Maij, 01 00 0
" Jdem pro eadem 30° Maij, 01 00 0
"Mr Munkes belga 3° Junij, 01 2 0
" Daniell Mollineux/secialis regius 5° Junij, 01 00 0
" Mr fox pro uxore pregnante 8° Junii, 01 00 0
" St. Laurence centurio p se 10 Junii, 01 00 0
" Matrona Plunkett JD filia Margareta tumori adenum in collo,
instar Scrophula, obnoxia 13° Junii, 01 00 0
" Mr Tumor mercator anglus in platea patritiana 15° Junii, 00 10 0
" Matrona Plunkett p'dicta p eadem filia 16° Junii, . . . 0110 0
" Mr Tumor p'dictus 7° Junii, 00 10 0
"Idem 18° Junii, 00 10 0
154
£ s.
d.
"Idem 19° Junii,
00 10
f\r\ i r\
0
" Idem 20° Junii,
00 10
" Idem 21° Junii, . • A •
00 10
0
" Idem 22° Junii, . '
00 10
0
" Idem 23° Junii, ' ' .: ' '
00 10
" Dfis Vice comes de Gormastowne1 p uxore 21 Junii, . .
03 00
0
" Sr llobert King p'dictus p eadem 29th Junij,
01 00
0
"Thomas Whytede Wards pthisicus 1° Julij,
" Justiciarius Phillepott pro filio 4° Julij,
00 10
00 10
0
0
" Mr Tumor p'dictus p 8° Julij, . . . • • • • • •
00 10
0
" Matrona Plunkett p'dicta pro eade filia 8° Julij, . . .
01 00
0
" Ellina Tallon vidua p'dicta 11° Julij,
00 10
0
4 k Thomas fieldeus mercator 14° Julij, . .......
00 10
0
"Johannes Southwell p'dictus p uxore 17° Julij, . . ^. ,
00 10
0
" Sr Henricus Tutchborne praedictus p famulo 20° Julij, .
00 11
0
" Patricius Mappas p'dictus 24° Julij, . . . • • • •
00 10
0
<' Thomas Johannis Arthurius mercator 27° Julij, ^ . . .
00 10
0
"Johannes Southwell p eadem sua uxore 31° Julij, . . .
00 10
0
" Sir Carolus Coute senior p'dictus 7° Augustii, ....
02 00
0
"Idem 11° Augusti, •
02 00
0
" Idem 15° Augusti,
02 00
0
" Rowlandus Chamberlaine p filia 16° Augusti, . . . .
00 5
0
" Slany ni Bryen p filio Guilielimi Dungane 19° Augustii, .
00 15
0
"Matrona Moa quce, inoratur apud Dfmm Dillon, 19°
Augusti,
00 10
0
" Edmundus Cammane Wexfordiensis 27° Augusti, . . .
00 7
0
" Jacobus Handcock centurio 30° Augusti,
01 00
0
' Matrona Plunkett p filia p'dicta 6° Septembris, ....
01 00
0
1 Mr Conningham sartor 8° Septembris,
00 8
0
* Sr Johannes Breuerthon p uxore p'dicta 12 Septembris, .
01 00
0
' Matrona Plunkett p'dicta p ancilla 14° Septebris, . . .
00 5
0
' Quidfi studiosus de collegio 16 Septembris,
00 10
0
* Acchmi O Misdie chyrurgus Ultoniensis p quoda segro
20°Spcr.,
00 10
0
" Joanes Pseudo Decanus Cassiliensis 23° Septembris, . .
00 10
0
" Jacobus Doode pro uxore 25 Septembris,
00 5
0
" Guilielimus Hilthon p'dictus p uxore p'dicta 25° Seps. .
02 00
0
" Matrona Mappas p'dicta 28° Septembris,
00 5
0
" Guilielimus Plunkett scriba 30 Septembris,
00 10
0
" Idem 3° Octobris,
00 10
0
" Petrus Queyn pro se 8° Octobris,
00 10
0
" Dus Vice Comes /aulkland prorex 11° Octobris, . . .
02 00
0
" Comittissa Tyrconnell p'dicta p Christophero filio 14°
Octobris,
01 00
0
"Diia Sexten pro cognata sua Maria Poulter 16° Octobris,
00 10
0
" Alisia Barneuil, quoc matrona Whyte, p'dicta 20° Octobris,
" Symon/anning Lyrm'censis pro Johanne filio 23 Octobris,
00 10
00 10
0
0
1 This appears to be Jenico Preston, Peerage of Ireland on the 7th of August*
fifth Viscount in descent from Sir Ro- 1478, by the title of Viscount Gormans-
bert Preston, who was elevated to the town of Gormanstown.
155
£ s. d.
" Idem 27 Octobris, p eodem, 00 6 0
" Parry ludimagister 27° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Gulielimus Crafton, p filio 29° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Justiciarius Mayard p'dictus p filio, 2° Novembris, . . 01 00 0
" Robertus Meredith p filio, 00 10 0
" Ellina Talloun vidua p'dicta 9° Novembris, 02 10 0
" Symon/anning p'dictus p filio p'dicto 12° Novembris, . 01 00 0
" Gualterus Taylor de Turuie 15° Novembris, .... 01 00 0
"Johannes St. Laurence de Crucetowne 18° Novembris, . 01 00 0
"Matrona Tath de Droghedaha 21° Novembris, .... 01 00 0
" Robertus /leming de Drohedaha 30° Novembris, ... 06 6 0
" Mr Arthor Hill 2° Decembris p uxore, 00 10 0
" Nicholaus Porter de Drohedaha 6° Decembris, .... 00 10 0
" Christopherus Why te p'dictus 10° Decembris, .... 01 00 0
"Johannes /ourd p quoda iuuene Wardoru infirmo 13°
Decembris, 00 10 0
" Patritius Delahyde de Drohedaha 16° Decembris, . . 01 00 0
"Robertus Fleming p'dictus 19° Decembris, 02 00 0
" Arthur Hill p uxore p'dicta 23° Decembris, 00 1 1 0
" Mr Dowdall de Thimoule 27° Decembris, 00 10 0
" Nicholaus Skarley p uxore 30° Decembris, 00 10 0
" Elizabeths Plunkett 20° January, 00 10 0
"Nicholaus Loftus p se 7° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Idem 8° Januarij, 00 10 0
" Sr Richardus Ayleswoorth 14° Januarij, 06 00 0
" Matrona Mapas p'dicta 17° January, 00 8 0
" Edwardus Dowdall Register CuriaB Cancelarise a cholera
morbo, quo pene sublatus est, tande restitutus 23° Jan'. 02 00 0
"Matrona Dauidis Beg p famulo 25° Januarij, .... 00 5 6
" Matrona Plunkett p'dicta 29° Januarij, 01 2 0
" Sr Guilielimus Stewart p'dictus 1° February, .... 00 10 0
"Robertus /leming p'dictus 5° February", 01 10 0
«* Sr Lucas Fitzgerald pro uxore icterica 9° February, . . 02 00 0
" Joanes pseudo Decanus Caselliensis p'dictus 15° februarij, 00 10 0
"Francisca ancilla Dnae Angiers 20° February, . . . . 00 10 0
"Matrona Stanihurst 23° Februarij, 00 10 0
"Sr Guilielimus Vssher, senior, 27° Februarij, .... 01 00 0
" Matrona Stanihurst p'dicta 1° Martij, 00 10 0
" Gualterus Britt, p filio 5° Martij, 00 10 0
"Francisca ancilla p'dicta 9° Martij, 00 10 0
"Richardus Doude p'dictus 13° Martij, 00 10 0
"Sr Guilielimus Vssher, senior, p'dictus 18 Martij, . . 01 00 0
"Matrona Stanihurst p'dicta 21° Martij, 00 10 0
" Edwardus Whyte studiosus e collegio 23° Martij, . . . 00 10 0
"Josephus Maddine 24° Martij, 1628, ....... 00 10 0
"Honoraria nobis collata hoc ano p'terito attingutad
sumam £109 8*. 6d, ster., pro quibus sumo
deo bonoru omniu largitori, quas
possumus, rependimus gratias.
156
Anno Dni 1629.
£ 8. d.
-DanieUMollineauxfecialisregiusp folio 26° Martij, . . 01 00 0
"Vxor Jacob! Byrrin praedicta 28° Martij, ........
"S'GuilielimusVssher senior p'dictus 28° Martij, . . . 01 00 0
" Johannes Greniham pro fiho Thoma 30° Marty, . ... 00 10
-Idem pro eodem 1" Aprilis, ••;;•-. -...' ' ' °* °° °
« Johannes Stanley senior p nepote ex fratre 3° Apri is, . .
" Johannes Greynham p'dictus p eodem fiho 3° Aprilis, . . 00
" Matrona fagane pro filio 6° Aprilis,
•' Josephus Maddine p'dictus 9° Aprilis, . . . . . . . 0011 0
" Daniel Mollineaux p'dictus p eodem fiho Thorna p dicto 12
^ -j 00 10 6
"Johannes Greynham p'dictus p eodem filio 13° Aprilis, . . 00 10 0
"Matrona Stanihurst p'dicta 16° Aprilis, 00 10 6
" Christopherus Keynane pro vxore 20° Aprilis, .... 00 10 0
"Mr Fitz-Gerrald pro famulo 23° Aprilis, 00 10 6
" Edwardus Whyte studiosus p'dictus 25° Aprilis, ... 01 00 0
" Phillippus Perciual p seruis 28° Aprilis, . . . . . . 01 10 0
" Idem pro famulo suo francisco Burges 30° Aprilis, . . . 01 00 0
" Sr Edwardus Bagsheaw p sua Domina 3° Maij, .... 00 10 6
"Thomas Yeldon pro vxore 5° Maij, 00 10 6
"Johannes Talbottp sorore 7° Maij, 00 6 0
"Sr Edwardus Bagsheaw p vxore p'dicta 10° Maij, . . . 00 10 6
"Quajdam generosa ruri degens 14° Maij, 00 10 6
"Sr. Edwardus Bagsheaw pro eadem vxore 17° Maij, ... 00 10 6
"Nicholaus Loftus p'dictus 22° Maij, 01 00 0
" Sr Jacobus Dillon 26° Maij, 01 10 0
"Nicholaus Loftus p'dictus 30° Maij, 00 10 6
44 Dominicus Coppinger 5° Junij, 00 10 0
"Sr Johannes Bath 12° Junij, 01 10 0
" Henricus Cleare 17° Jumj, 00 10 6
*' Robertus Newcomen iunior p'dictus 21° Junij, .... 01 10 0
"Johannes Southwell p'dictus p Henrico Cleare p'd: 27°
Junij, 01 00 0
"SrDudleusNorthonl°Julij, 01 00 0
" Matrona Pyers vidua 9° Julij hypochondriaca, .... 01 2 0
uSr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 15° Julij, 01 00 0
"Johannes Dumbillp filia 21° Julij, 00 10 6
"S' Dudleus Northon p'dictus 26° Julij, 01 00 0
"Robertus Newcomen iunior p'dictus 29° Julij, . . . . 00 10 6
" Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 10° Augusti, 01 00 0
" Matrona Pyers vidua p'dicta De Thristernah 3° Augusti, . 00 1 1 0
** 4° Augusti discessi dublinio Lyftlicum ubi comoratus ad
23m Die Nouebris insequentis, ubi interea temporis ob-
tinui a diversis aogris, 22 5 0
"St. Laurence Senator Drohadahensis puxore 30° Novembris, 01 10 0
''Jacobus Vssher pseudoprimas Ardmachanus p'dictus 20°
Decemb., 11 00 0
" Sr Doudly Northon p'dictus surdaster factus 22° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Thomas Johannis Arthurius 27° Decembris, 00 10 6
4 'Sr Doudly Northon p'dictus 31° Decembris, 01 00 0
157
£ s. d.
" S' Eobertus/oord p sua domina 5° Januarij, 01 10 6
" Mr Elliott 15° Januarij, 0010 0
"Sr Dowdly Northon p'dictus 1 8° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Mr Philip? Perciual p eadem sua uxore 21° Januarij, . . 01 00 0
"Sr Robertus/oord p'dictus p eadem 26° Januarij, ... 01 00 0
"Mr Phillipus Perciual p eadem sua uxore 28° Januarij, . 00 10 0
'* Doctor Donnellane pro sua uxore 31° Januarij, .... 00 10 0
" Patricius Mappas p'dictus p se 2°/ebruarij, 00 10 0
"Jacobus Duff p uxore Rosa Mar tine 5° /ebruarij, . . . 00 10 0
" Quida Nauta belga 7°/ebruariJ> 00 5 6
"Sr. Dudleus Northon p'dictus 11° /ebruarij, 01 00 0
"Jacobus Handcock centurio p'dictus 15 /ebruarij, ... 01 00 0
"Vidua Pan thine 20° /ebruarij, 01 00 0
"Patricius Mappas p'dictus 27° /ebruarij, 01 00 0
** Eduardus Johannis Arthurius p uxore Barbara 1° Martij, 00 14 6
" Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus a surditate liberatus 6° Martij, 01 00 0
"8° die Martii discessi Dublinio Lynlicu accersitus ad Joana
Leo uxore Andrew Creagh phlegmone systrophica vteri
laborante ubi comoratis apud uxore ad septimu diem
insequentis Junij. interea vero ad 24m. Martii obtinui, . 05 10 0
" Honoraria hujus elapsi anni adimpleant siimam
£84 12s. Qd. pro quibus et cseteris diuinis
beneficijs dignas sed longe impares
Deo referrimus gratias.
Anno Dni 1630.
A 25° Martij ad 4m Junij 1630 quida segri mea opera vsi
dederunt mihi honoraria ad suma II1, 11 6 0
" Sr Dudleus Northon post reditu meu Dubliniu 9° Junij, . 0100 0
" Jacobus /leming p uxore 10° Junij, 00 10 0
"Thomas Skyddy 11° Junij, 00 10 0
" Jacobus /leming p'dictus p eadem uxore 12° Junij, . . 00 10 0
" Phillipus Hore Senior 13° Junij, 00 05 0
"Thomas Skyddy p'dictus 13° Junij, 00 10 0
" Domina /ourd Senior 15° Junij, 01 00 0
" Carolus/lorentii M'Cartie 17° Junij, 00 10 0
'* Jacobus /leming p p'dicta uxore 20° Junij, 01 00 0
" Theobaldus Walsh p uxore 26° Junij, 00 14 0
" Johannes Grey nhame p'dictus p filia 1° Julij, .... 00 10 0
" Phillipus Hore p'dictus p uxore 8° Julij, 01 00 0
"Henricus/letcher p se 12° Julij, 01 00 0
" Johannes Greynhame p'dictus p eade filia 14° Julij, . . 00 10 0
" Theobaldus Walsh p'dictus p eadem uxore 16° Julij, . . 00 6 0
"Matrona Eichardi Doud p filio 16° Julij, 00 5 0
"Matrona Carbery 18° Julij, . , 00 5 0
" Edwardus Dowdal registrarius Curise Cancellarise 19° Julij, 01 00 0
" Sir Guilielimus Parsons1 p filio Richardo 22° Julij, . . 00 10 0
1 Sir William Parsons, ancestor of endorsing the Royal Commission of
the Earls of Rosse. He wrote a magni- James I., which was given to him (then
ficent hand, as I find by his signature William Parsons, Esq., His Majesty's
Y
ct
158
£ s. d,
•'Sr Guilielimns Parsons p filio Richardo 22° Julij, ... 00 10 0
" Mathteus Reade p'dictus 24° Julij, . . . • • . . 00 8
"Sr Guilieliraus Parsons p'dictus p eodc fiho 29° Julij, . .
" Guilielimus Plunkett scriba p'dictus 2° August!, ... 00
-Idem 3" August!, 00 10 0
-Idem 4° August!, 00 10
"Decanus Parker p filio 6° Augusti, 00 5
"Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus p eodem filio 6° Augusti, 0100 0
"Decanus Parker p'dictus p eodem filio 7° Augusti, . . . 00 10 0
" Christopherus Why te p'dictus p filio 8° Augusti, ... 00 10 0
" Decanus Parker p'dictus £ eodem filio 10° Augusti, . . 0012 0
*» Dominions Synott p uxore 11° Augusti, 00 5 6
Doctor Robeftus Vssher p'dictus p se 12° Augusti, . . 00 10 6
Robertus Nangle de Dinglicuish 14° Augusti, .... 00 5 0
Decanus Parker p'dictus p uxore 17° Augusti, .... 00 10 0
Sr Guilielimus Parsons p p'dicto filio 10° Augusti, ... 01 00 0
Guilielimus Plunket p'dictus p filio 21° Augusti, ... 00 10 0
"Decanus Parker p'dictus p filio 22° Augusti, .... 00 5 0
" Mr Larkane p se 22° Augusti, 00 5 0
" Guilielimus Plunket p'dictus 24° Augusti, 01 00 0
" Sr Guilielimus Parsons p filio p'dicto 28° Augusti, . . 01 00 0
" Phillippus Hore p'dictus 30° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Robertus Browne 5° Septembris, 00 5 0
" Michahel Brohol 5° Septembris, 00 5 0
" Domina Newcomen p'dicta p filia Catherina 7° Septem-
bris, 00 10 0
11 Denstervile minister 9° Septembris, . 00 5 0
4<Sr Henricus Tutchborne p filio p'dicto 12° Septembris, . 00 10 0
"Johannes Greinhame p'dictus 14° Septembris, .... 00 6 0
"Sr Henricus Tutchborne p'dictus pro eodem filio 16° Sept., 00 10 0
41 Vidua Cleinthon pro filia 18° Septembris, 02 00 0
"Patritius Meredith pleuriticus 21° Septembris, .... 01 00 0
** Thomas Whyte citra pontem 26° Septembris, .... 00 8 0
"Robertus Meredith p'dictus 1° Octobris, 01 00 0
"Johannes Greinhame p'dictus 3° Octobris, 00 6 0
Surveyor-General " of all his Majesty's dred pounds Englishe by the yeare
lande in this realme"), on the 24th during the lyfe of Sr William Harring-
of August, 1614, with Sir Lawrence ton, Knt., and afterwardes one hun-
Esmonde, Knight, James Walshe, of dred and fifty pounds Englishe by the
Shanganagh, and Thomas Allen, of yeare to be paid, &c., to the King's
Killhoolye, Esqrs., " under the greate Majestie, his heirs, successors, &c., for
Scale of this Realme," authorising and out of the Territories called Birne's
them "after severall meetings therein Mountains, and Totha in the County of
Lad with the inhabitants of the saide Wicklow," &c., &c. It was this survey
territorie (the country of the O'Byrnes and assessment, the original of which is
of the Mountains of the County of now before me, that led to one of the
Wicklow), and with the advyce of the most disastrous and fatal clearances
p'sons of most understandinge therein, recorded in Irish history, as well as
having respect alsoe to the former one which has been pronounced by all
greate charge of the severall villages," authorities as the most unjust and
&c., &c., "to assess or plott two hun- cruel.
159
£ s. d.
" Robertus Meredith p'dictus 5° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Johannes Greinham p'dictus 7° Octobris, 00 5 6
" Mr Long p filio 9° Octobris, 00 6 0
"Robertus Cusake de Rathegare pro filio Johanne 11° Oct., 00 7 0
"Simonis Esmondi famulus Chyuers 14° Octobris, ... 00 11 0
« Robertus Cusake pro se 20° Octobris, 00 9 0
" Clemens Aissh 23° Octobris, 01 00 0
4<Patritius Mappas p'dictus 25° Octobris, 00 5 0
" Robertus Meredith p'dictus liberatus a pleuritide 28° Oct., 02 00 0
*' Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dict9 p filio et uxore 31° Octobris, 10 00 0
** DnaNeutrauileiunior, uxor Johannis equitis, tremori cordis
a fervidis atrabiliarijs orto obnoxia 2° Novembris dedit, 00 10 0
" Thomas Whyte p'dictus p uxore 3° Novembris, ... 00 5 0
" Johannes Higgins p filio 4° Novembris, 00 6 0
<* Domina Baltinglass p'dicta 5° Novembris, 01 00 0
" Phillippus Hore, senior, p'dictus 7° Novembris, ... 00 14 0
"Dna Newcomen p'dicta p Catherina filia 9° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Robertus Meredith p'dictus p filia Greisella 12° Novem-
bris, 01 00 0
" Thomas Whyte p'dictus 14° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Robertus Rason clericus officii Pipa3 dicti nephriticus 16°
Novembris, 02 00 0
" Jacobus Berminghame p uxore 18° Novembris, .... 01 00 0
" Nicholaus Loftus 1 9° Novembris, 00 10 0
"Mr[ ] te 2° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Thomas Johannis Arthurius p'dictus 22° Novembris, . 01 00 0
" Domina Johannis Breuerthon p'dicta 24° Novembris, . . 01 00 0
** Matrona Vssher pro consanguineo Thoma Phillips 26° Nu-
bris, 00 10 0
" Clemens Aissh p'dictus 27° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Jacobus Rason p'dictus 29° Novembris, ...... 02 00 0
"Margareta Vssher 1° Decembris, 00 10 0
<( Robertus Meredith pro filia p'dicta 2° Decembris, ... 00 10 0
'* Vxor Thoma3 Wetherbie p filio 3° Decembris, .... 00 5 0
" Phillippus Perciual p Josepho Maddin p'dicto 4° Decem-
bris, 00 10 0
" Margareta Vssher pMicta 5° Decembris, 00 10 0
"Vxor Thoma3 Wetherbie p'dicta p eodem filio 7° Decem-
bris, ..... 00 5 0
" Robertus Meredith p'dictus p eadem filia 8° Decembris, . 00 10 0
" Thomas Whyte p'dictus 11° Decembris, 00 5 0
" Sr Henricus Lee 13° Decembris, 00 10 0
"Dna Baltinglas p'dicta 14° Decembris, 00 10 6
"Nicholaus Pinnard centurio1 15° Decembris, 00 10 0
i This seems to be the Captain Nicho- tlement and Plantation. Pynnar's Sur-
las Pynner, or Pinnard, as above writ- vey was made by virtue of a Commis-
ten, who in 1618, after the flight of the sion of Inquiry into the performance of
Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell, made the conditions by the Undertakers and
a Survey of the Counties in Ulster, in others concerned in the said Settlement,
which King James I. had made the Set- and which was returned to be miserably
160
£ s. d.
" Robertus Meredith p'dictus p eade filia 17° Decembris, . 01 00 0
» Matrona Borr p filio Johanne Brysse 19° Decembris, . . 00
"Sr Guilielimus Parsons p se 21° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Domina Newcomen p'dicta 2° Januarij, 00 10 0
" Matrona Vssher iunior p faraulo 3° Januarij, .... 00 10 0
" Daniel Mollineaux faecialis regius p'dictus 4° Januarij, .
" Idem pro se 6° Januarij, 01 00 0
Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus 8° Januarij, .... 01 00 0
Guilielimus Crofton p filio 10° Januarij, 00 10 6
Matrona Fleming 1 1° Januarij, 00 6 0
Guilielimus Vssher iunior p uxore 13° Januarij, ... 01 00 0
Domina Dillon p filio Cary 14° Januarij, 01 00 0
"Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus 15° Januarij, .... 01 00 0
" Daniel Mollineaux p'dictus 11° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Diis Robertus Dillon p se 19° Januarij, 00 10 0
" Guilielimus Vssher iunior p eade uxore, .... . 01 00 0
" Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus 24° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Jacobus Handcock centurio p'dictus 25° Januarij, . . . 00 10 6
" Guilielimus Sainct leger1 iunior films Prassidis 28° Jan., . 03 00 0
"Matrona Pyers senior p se 29° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Matrona Bodley pro filia 30° Januarij, 00 5 0
"Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus l°/ebruarij, 01 00 0
"Thomas Skyddie p'dictus p se 2° /ebruarij, 00 10 6
" Domina Newcomen p'dicta 3° /ebruarij, 01 10 0
'Johannis Greinham p'dictus p uxore 4° /ebruarij, ... 00 6 0
'Idem p eadem 6° /ebruarij, • 00 6 0
'P. Cusak pro sorore 7° /ebruarij, 00 6 0
' Dna Baltinglas p'dicta p filia 8° /ebruarij, 00 10 0
'Johannes Greinhame p'dictus p eadem 9° /ebruarij, . . 00 6 0
4 Idem p eadem 10°/ebruarij, 00 6 0
' Thomas Whyte p'dictus 10° /ebruarij, 00 3 0
'Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus ll°/ebruarij, 01 00 0
' Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 12° /ebruarij, 01 00 0
'Johannes Greinhame p'dictus pro eadem 13° /ebruarij, . 00 6 0
'Jo. Lacie 14° /ebruarij pro se, 00 10 0
'Sr Doudleus Northon p'dictus 15° /ebruarij, 01 00 0
4 Johannes Greinham p'dictus 16° /ebruarij, 00 6 0
'Domina Olueri Lambert vidua 17° /ebruarij, .... 00 15 0
' Dna Dillon p'dicta p eodem filio 18° /ebruarij, .... 01 00 0
'Johannes Greinham p'dictus p eadem 19°/ebruarij, . . 00 5 0
4 Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 20° /ebruarij, 01 00 0
'Christianus Borr p'dictus p famulo 20° /ebruarij, ... 00 5 6
'Matrona Bodely p'dicta p filia 22° /ebruarij, 00 15 0
'Doctor Robertus Vssher p aflSne suo 23° /ebruarij, . . 00 6 0
defective in the most material articles; years afterwards. See Harris's " Hi-
and from whence "the Popish interest" bernica."
according to Pynnar, gained so much > Of President St. Leger the history
ground that it was thereby enabled to of those days is so full that it is useless
carry on a desperate rebellion a few to try to compress it into a note.
161
£ a. d.
"Sr Guilielimus Vssher senior1 24° /ebruarij, 00 11 0
"Johannes Stanley senior p uxore p'dicta 25° /ebruarij, . 01 00 0
"Johannes Quoyn citra pon tern 26° /ebruarij, 00 4 6
" Dns Docwray senior2 perineumoniacus 28° /ebruarij, .. . 00 11 0
"Idem l°Martij, 01 2 0
11 Idem 2° Martij, 01 00 0
"Sr Guilielimus Vssher senior p'dictus 3° Martij, ... 0011 0
"Sr Dudle us Northon p'dictus 3° Martij, 01 00 0
" Dns Docwray p'dictus 4° Martij, 01 02 0
" Matrona Queyn p ancilla 4° Martij, 00 2 6
" Dns Docwray p'dictus 5° Martij, 01 00 0
" Gilbertus Doumbill p filia 5° Martij, 01 00 0
"Matrona Bodley p'dicta p eadem filia 5° Martij, ... 00 5 0
" Sr Jacobus Ware senior3 p filio Josepho 6° Martij, ... 00 10 0
"Dns Docwray p'dictus 6° Martij, 01 00 0
1 Sr Dodleus Northon p'dictus 7° Martij, 01 00 0
'Oatherina Parsons quse Matrona Barry 8° Martij, . . . 01 00 0
' Dns Docwray p'dictus 9° Martij, '. 01 2 0
'Sr Guilielimus Vssher senior p'dictus 10° Martijj . . 01 00 0
'Daniel Mollineux prgedictus 11° Martij, 01 00 0
'Robertus Bonny minister 12° Martij, 00 10 0
'Dns Docwray p'dictus 13° Martij, 01 00 0
'Idem 14° Martij, 01 00 0
" Comitissa Barrymore pro primogenito 14° Martij, ... 01 00 0
" Guilielimus Plunkett scriba p'dictus 15° Martij, ... 01 00 0
" Dns Docwray p'dictus 15° Martij, 02 2 0
" Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus 16° Martij, 01 00 0
"S* Thomas "Weaymons4 16° Martij, 0010 0
"Dns Docwray p'dictus 17° Martij, 01 00 0
"Sr Thomas Weaymons p'dictus 17° Martij, 00 10 0
"Guilielimus Crafton p'dictus 18° Martij, 01 00 0
"Dns Docwray p'dictus 18° Martij, 01 00 0
"SrDudleus Northon p'dictus 19° Martij, 01 00 0
" Dns Docwray p'dictus 20° Martij, 01 00 0
"M-- Smith 20° Martij, 00 5 0
" Guilielimus Crafton p'dictus 21° Martij, 01 00 0
" Johannes famulus Dni baronis de Keyry 21° Martij, . . 00 10 0
' Sir William Usher, the elder, was 2 SeeArchdall's "Lodge," vol. i. p. 319.
son of John Usher, who was Mayor of 3 Sir James Ware, the celebrated an-
Dublin in 1571, and who wrote a trea- tiquary and writer, who thus made the
tise, " De Reformatione Hibernise," acquaintance of Dr. Thomas Arthur,
which is mentioned in Ware's writers, p. and who makes mention of Dr. Arthur
97- John Usher was recommended to in his works, as the possessor of certain
Sir William Cecil, Knt., Chief Secretary valuable manuscripts of his illustrious
to Queen Elizabeth, as a zealous man in relative, Archbishop Creagh. See Leni-
Christ's religion, who " desireth to have ban's " History of Limerick."
the Custom of Dublinge, which is to be 4 Very likely the son of Captain Ed-
letted out Michelmas next in ferme, or mond Waynman, Provost Marshal of
otherwise, &c." See Shirley's " Origi- Connaught, in which "office he was suc-
nal Letters." ceeded by Sir Charles Coote.
162
£ 9. d
« Sr Theodorus Docwray primogenitus Dili Docwray p'dicti ^ ^
»DfisSDocwrayp'dictus22°Martij, . ... . . . 01 00 0
uComitissaBarrymorepfiHoPra3dicto23°Martij, ....
"Dili Docwray p'dictus 23° Martij, 0100
» Sr Theodorus Docwray p'dictus 24° Martij, 00 10 0
"Ro«*erus King Vice clericus officii Hanaparh dicti 24°
Martij, 00 10 0
•'Qura hoc animo accepimus honoraria attingunt ad suma
£145 13s. 6d. stg. pro quibus et omnibus Diuinse benig-
nitatis susceptis emolumetis sumo Deo bonorii omniu
largitori munifico, sit honor % gloria in ssecula
seculoru. Amen.
Anno 1631.
*< Dominus Docwray p'dictus 25° Martij 1631, 01 00 0
« Dim Digby pro filio 26° Martij, , 01 00 0
" Dominus Docwray p'dictus 26° Martij, 01 00 0
« Johannes Talbot famulus Gulielmi Turnerii subita
pieptoffi sen fatuitate correptus 26° Martij, ..... 00 5 0
"Sr Theodorus Docwray p'dictus 27° Martij, 0010 0
" Centurio Leuentrop 27° Martij, 00 10 0
«Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus 28° Martij, 01 00 0
" Edmundus Maloune senator p filia 28° Martij, .... 00 10 0
Dns Docwray p'dictus 2° Martij, 01 00 0
Idem 29° Martij, 01 00 0
Idem 30° Martij, 01 00 0
Sr Theodorus Docwray p'dictus 31° Martij, 00 10 0
Patritius Fitz Moris1 Dns Kyery £ uxore 1° Aprilis, . . 01 2 0
Dns Docwray p'dictus 2° Aprilis, 01 00 0
Doctor Robertas Usher p'dictus 3° Aprilis, 00 10 0
Dns Docwray p'dictus 3° Aprilis, 01 00 0
Idem 4° Aprilis, 02 00 0
Doctor Robertus Usher p'dictus 5° Aprilis, 00 10 0
• Dfia Digbey p'dicta & filia 6° Aprilis, 01 00 0
'Thomas Johannis Arthurius p'dictus 6° Aprilis, . . . 01 00 0
' Sr Theodorus Docwray p'dictus 7° Aprilis, 00 10 0
4 DBI Docwray p'dictus 7° Aprilis, 01 00 0
' Matrona Larck 8° Aprilis, 00 05 0
; Matrona Greynham p'dicta 8° Aprilis, 00 05 0
' Jacobus Rawson p'dictus 9° Aprilis, 01 00 0
1 Dns Docwray p'dictus 10° Aprilis, 01 00 0
' Matrona Larck p'dicta 1 1° Aprilis, 00 5 0
' Purcell Mercator in foro frumentario2 11° Aprilis, ... 00 5 0
4 Thomas Sadler 12° Aprilis, 00 5 6
'Patrick Fitzmaurice, son of Thomas Cullenan, otherwise St. Cormac, who
the, 8th Lord of Kerry, who died on the died Archbishop of that See A. D. 908.
3rd J une, 1630, and was buried at Cashel 2 The present Corn Market, near
in the chapel and tomb of Cormac Mac Christ Church, Dublin.
165
£ s. d.
" Decanns Bernardus 12° Aprilis, 00 5 0
"Sr Jacobus Dillon 13° Aprilis, 01 00 0
"Dna Catherina Boyle uxor Arthur! Jones 14° Aprilis, . . 01 00 0
4t Guilielimus Smith minister 15° Aprilis, 00 10 0
"Jacobus Handcock Centurio p'dictus 16° Aprilis, ... 00 10 0
«« Guilielimus Brabazon Comes Midiae p'dictus 17° Aprilis, . 01 00 0
"MXNenes p uxore 19° Aprilis, 00 5 0
" Comes Midiae p'dictus 20° Aprilis, 01 00 0
'* Sr Theodorus Docwray pro impensa mea opera erga
Dnum fratrem suu prsedict', que ab ineunte morbo deplo-
ratge salutis fuisse p'dixera, dedit post obitum 21° Aprilis, 05 00 0
" Comes Midiae p'dictus 22° Aprilis, , . 01 00 0
" Keyse Eivens1 25° Aprilis, 00 1 1 0
" Matrona Larke p'dicta 26° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Comes Midise p'dictus 26° Aprilis, ........ 01 00 0
" Mr Baker 27° Aprilis, . 01 00 0
" Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 28° Aprilis, ...... 01 00 0
"Reyse Eivens p'dictus 28° Aprilis, ........ 00 10 0
" Daniel Mollineaux p'dictus 29° Aprilis, 01 00 0
" Johannes Greinham p'dictus pro uxore 29° Aprilis, . . 01 00 0
" Jacobus Handcock centurio p'dictus 29° Aprilis, , . . 00 10 0
" John Greinham p'dictus pro uxore 29° Aprilis, .... 00 6 0
" Idem p ead' 30° Aprilis, 00 6 0
" Guilielimus Daniel juris civilis % Canonic! peritus 2° Maij, 00 10 0
" Comes Midise p'dictus 30° Maij, 01 00 0
" Dna de Kyerie vidua p filio Edmundo 30° Maij, ... 00 10 0
" Johannes Greynham p'dictus j> uxore p'dicta 4° Maij, . 00 6 0
" Matrona Bodely £ filio Thoma p'dicto 4° Maij, .... 00 5 0
" Sr Edwardus Harrys Justicianus p filio suo Edmundo
melancholias obnoxio 5° Maij, 00 10 0
"Johannes Greinham p'dictus p eade uxore 6° Maij, . . 00 6 0
" Matrona Borr p'dicta p filio suo Johane Breyse 6° Maij, . 00 5 0
" Johannes Fagaine* de Peltroum p nepote Johanne 7° Maij, 01 00 0
" Comes Midiee p'dictus 3° Maij, 01 00 0
" Guilielimus Plunkett p'dictus 9° Maij, 00 10 0
" Matrona Larke de platea Castri 9° Maij, 00 10 0
" Dna Johannis Breuerton p'dicta 10 Maij, 00 10 0
"M* Delahydep famulo 11° Maij, 00 10 0
"Mr Tath 12° Maij, 00 10 0
"Mp Champion mercator p uxore 12° Maij, 00 10 0
"Matrona Borr p'dicta pro eodem suo filio 13° Maij, . . . 00 5 0
1 Reyse Eivens, quere Rice Evans, a An ancient Cork family of this name
Limerick family, ancestors to the Lords was represented some few years ago
Carbery— and the proprietors of Ca- by William Fagan, Esq., M. P. for Cork
herass, county of Limerick, before it city, and author of a life of Daniel
went into the hands of the Roches, who O'Connell, the Liberator; and at pre-
are now represented by Sir David Van- sent by Captain Fagan, M. P. for Car-
deleur Roche, Bart., lately married to low. See Sir Bernard Burke's " Landed
a daughter of Lord Clarina. Gentry of Ireland" for more about this
2 Fagan of Feltrim, near Malahide. old family.
164
£ a. d.
"Matrona Leake p'dicta 13° Maij, 00 10 0
" Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus 14° Maij, 01 00 0
" Dna Newcomen p'dicta £ filia Catherina 14° Maij, . . . 00 10 0
" Guilielimus Plunkett p'dictus p uxore 15° Maij, ... 00 10 0
" Thomas Lutherell de Lutherellstowne 16° Maij, ... 01 10 0
" Rogerus Moore 17° Maij 00 10 0
"Johannes Greinhara p'dictus 5 filia 17° Maij, .... 00 6 0
"Matrona Leake p'dicta 18° Maij, 0100 0
"M'Tothnam 19° Maij, 01 00 0
<4Dns Usher pseudo primas Ardmachanus 20° Maij, . . . 0200 0
"Mr Campion p'dictus pro uxore p'dicta 21° Maij, . . . 01 10 0
"Johannes Fagaine p'dictus p eodem nepote 22° Maij, . . 01 00 0
" Daniel Mollineaux p'dictus p uxore 23° Maij, .... 01 00 0
"Guilielimus Buckley 5 uxore 24° Maij, 00 10 0
"Dna Letitia Boyle uxor Junioris Gorrine 25° Maij, . . 01 00 0
" Matrona Plunkett p'dicta p filia p'dicta 26° Maij, ... 00 10 0
" Dna Gorrin p'dicta 27° Maij, 01 00 0
" Guilielimus Buckley p'dictus £ eade' uxore 28° Maij, . 00 10 0
" Jacobus Leaghlen scriba 29° Maij, 00 10 0
" Dna Gorrin p'dicta 30° Maij, 01 00 0
"Matrona Crafton p'dicta £ filia 31° Maij, 00 10 0
"Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus p uxore p'dicta 31° Maij, . 01 00 0
"Thomas Lutherell p'dictus 1° Junii, 01 00 0
" Guilielimus Buckley p'dictus p eadem uxore 1° Junii, . 00 10 0
' Comitissa de Earrymore p'dicta 2° Junii, 00 10 0
* Dna Gorrine p'dicta 2° Junii, 01 00 0
4 Sr Christophorus Shiptorp p'dictus 3° Junii, 00 1 1 0
1 Robertus Kennedy p filia 3° Junii, 00 10 0
4 Margarita Usher p'dicta 4° Junij, 00 10 0
* Johannes Chyvers iurisperitus 4° Junij, 00 10 6
1 Guilielimus Buckley p'dictus ^ uxore p'dicta 5° Junij, . 00 10 6
4 Mr Aish senex pro se 6° Junij, 00 10 0
4 Dna Gorrine p'dicta 6° Junij, 01 00 0
4 Sr Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus 7° Junij, 01 00 0
44 Matrona Plunkett p'dicta £ filio 8° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Margarita Usher p'dicta 8° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Dna Gorrine p'dicta 9° Junij, 01 00 0
44 Lancellot Lowther baro Skeccarij seu fisci regii 10°
Junij, 00 10 0
44 Dna Gorrine p'dicta 12° Junij 01 00 0
44 Anna Chyvers 14* Junij, 00 10 0
" Lanceloth Lowther baro p'dictus 15° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Sr Johannes Vachaine p'dictus 16° Junij, 00 10 0
*4 Sr John Jephson 18° Junij, 01 2 0
44 Michahall Cole 19° Junij, 00 10 0
" Sr Thomas Meredith p sua dna 20° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Mr Lake de Ballingarrie 21° Junij, 02 2 0
" Charles Boulthon 22° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Sr Thomas Meredith p'dictus p eadem 23° Junij, ... 00 10 0
44 Robertus Walsh of Kinore pro uxore 24° Junij, . . . . 01 00 0
165
£ s. d.
11 Sr John Jephson 25° Junij, 01 00 0
"Dna Commitissa de Ellij, 26° Junij, 01 0 0
" Ellena Talloun vidua p'dicta 26° Junii, 00 5 0
" Dna Gorrine p'dicta 28° Junij, 01 00 0
" Sr Thomas Meredyth p'dictus p eadera 29° Junij, ... 01 00 0
" Sr John Jephson p'dictus 30° Junij, 01 00 0
" Dna Gorrine p'dicta 1° Julij, 01 2 0
" Matrona Nightingale 2° Julij, 00 10 0
"Matrona Nightingale p'dicta 3° Julij 00 10 0
"Eadem 4° Julij, 00 10 0
u Phoebe Usher uxor primatis p'dicta 4° Julij, 01 10 0
" Dna de Elley p'dicta 5° Julii, 02 00 0
" Thomas /oye 5° Julij, 00 10 0
" Matrona Nightingal p'dicta 6° Julij, 00 10 0
"Mr Harrington p uxore 6° Julij, 00 10 0
" Laurentius Davis 7° Julij, 00 10 0
"Idem 8° Julij, . 00 10 0
4< Sr Johannes Jephson p famulo 9° Julij, 00 10 0
"Dna de Elley p'dicta 10° Julij, 01 00 0
"Sr Thomas Meredith p'dictus £ eadem uxore 10° Julij, . 01 00 0
'* Dfis Vicecomes de Dunegarauane 11° Julij, ..... 01 00 0
" Sr /aithfull aut fidelis /ortescue <p sua Dna, quse diu sur-
ditate et tinnitu auriu detinebatur et liberata est, 23°
Julij, 08 00 8
" Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 29° Julij, 01 00 0
" Dfis Cancellareus Adam. Loftus Vicecomes Elley 5° Augusti, 02 4 0
" Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 6° Augusti, 01 00 0
" Dna Gorrin p'dicta 9° Augusti, 01 2 0
"Dns Cancellareus p'dictus 10° Augusti, 02 00 0
" Sr Johannes Jephson p'dictus a strangulante angina praeter
complurium spem liberatus 13° Augusti, 06 00 0
"Mr Magennis 15° Augusti, 00 10 0
"Sr Carolus Vicecomes Wilmouth 16° Augusti, .... 01 00 0
"Thomas Ingrame 19° Augusti, 02 2 0
" Phillippus Percival p sua uxore Catherina Vssher 20° Au. 01 00 0
'* Mr Campion p'dictus g filio 22° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Thomas Luthrell p'dictus 25 Augusti a torminibus intes-
tinoru etvarij generis vermibus, tineis, ascaridibus, lum-
bricis, necnon vermibus pilosis et hirsutis copiose excre-
tis liberatus, 03 00 0
"DnsWilmouth p'dictus 30° Augusti, 01 00 0
« Thomas Lutherell p'dictus 3° Septembris, 02 00 0
" Franciscus Chambers p uxore 4° Septembris, .... 00 10 0
" Quida/aber ferrarius 4° Septembris, 00 5 0
"Sr Henricus Spotwoorth 6° Septembris, 01 00 0
" Thomas Lutherell p'dictus 8° Septembris, 01 00 0
u Queda generosa nisi degens 9° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes /eynch actor seu atturnatus 11° Septemb. . . 00 10 0
"Johannes Clark actor 13° Septembris, ....... 00 10 0
166
£ a. d.
« Matrona Boulton 14° Septembris, ........ 00 1 1 0
" Johannes /eynch actor p'dictus 16° Septembris, ....
" Guilielimus Smith p'dictus a graui morbo liberatus 23° S. 05 00 0
" Matrona Leake p'dicta 24° Septembris,
" Johannes /eynch p'dictus 25° Septembris, . ..... 00 10 0
" Edwardus Johannis Arthurius p'dictus, nephriticus 27°
Sept<5 01 oo o
" Vidua Aissh asthmati obnoxia 29° Septembris, .... 00 10 0
» Michahel Cole p'dictus 30° Septembris, 0100
« /in thon Parsons 2° Octobris, : ) 11 0
" Mr Baker p'dictus 4° Octobris,
" Vidua Aissh p'dicta 5° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Anna Bellgon 6° Octobris, 00 1 1 0
" Dna Letitia Gorrein p'dicta 7° Octobris, 01 00 0
"Patritius Morphew 8° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Fynthon Parsons p'dictus 8° Octobris, 00 1 1 0
" Georgius Bodly p'dictus |> Thoma filio 9° Octob., ... 00 10 0
"Sr Anthonius Brabazon p'dictus 9° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Comes Midise p Anna Belgon p'dicta, 01 00 0
" Sr Anthonius 13 rabazon p'dictus p filia Anna 11° Octobris, 00 10 0
'• Jacobus ; Rickman 12° Octobris, 00 17 0
" Sr Anthonius Brabazon p'dictus 13° Octobris, .... 01 00 0
"Matrona Gualteri Vssher p filio Johanne 14° Octob. . . 00 10 0
44 Matrona Leake p'dicta 14° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Johannes /eynch p'dictus 15° Octobris, 00 10 0
u Matrona Vssher p'dicta p code filio 16° Octobris, ... 00 10 0
" Patritius Morphew p'dictus 17° Octobris, 01 00 0
"Dna Baltinglas p'dicta 18° Octobris, 01 00 0
11 Dns Primus Vssher p'dictus 23° Octobris, 04 00 0
" Matrona Boulton p'dicta 25° Octobris, 01 10 0
" Sr Anthonius Brabazon p'dictus 27° Octobris, .... 01 00 0
" Mr AVatterhouse 30° Octobris, 01 00 0
"Anna Bellson p'dicta 2° Novembris, 01 00 0
" Dna Baltinglas p'dicta 3° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes /eynch p'dictus 5° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Robertus Bonny p'dictus minister de Larecor, qui diu
vexabatur melancholicis symptomatibus, tristitia, pauore,
nocturnis spectris, incertis pneumatosis humoribus ubi<£
obortis et mox euanescentibus sponte, suiFucatione noc-
turna et quoties esset in obscuroloco, deiecta appetentia,
stipato aluo, et quandoq^, dolore abdominis; hie, sumptis
idoneis medicamentis p integru mense sub finem autumni,
et per aliu mensem sequenti vere, excreuit ingente copia
mucosi et pituitosi humoris sine ullo symptomatu leua-
mine, tamen ego indicatione t proposito firmiter insistens
sequentis autumni fine eadem medicameta imperaui, nee
me spes fefellit, tune enim latentemt penitus delitescen-
tem atrabiliariu humore copiose excreuit, deinde tineas,
ascarides, lumbricos et diversaru formaru uermes, ver-
167
£ 5. d.
sicolores, languinoses, viuos et mortuos ; exinde ab
omnibus recensitis symptomatis liber euasit ; p impensa
opera prima vice dedidit mihi 7° Novembris, .... 03 6 0
" Dna Mayard pro filia 9° Novembris, 0 1 00 0
"Dn^ Adam Loftus p filio 10° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Loglen o Molone 10° Novembris, 00 5 0
"Nutrix Ellinse Arthur 11° Novembris, 00 5 0
"Dna Loftus p'dicta p code filio 11° Novembris, .... 00 10 0
" Jacobus Hey gate 13° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes /eynch p'dictus 15° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Andrewes pseudo decanus LySicensis1 16° Novembris, 00 10 6
"Idem 17° Novembris, 00 11 0
"Arthur Campion p'dictus 17° Novembris, 00 10 0
"Sf Ed wardus Harrys iudex p'dictus 18° Novembris, . . 00 1 1 0
"Rogerus King p'dictus 19° Novembris, 05 00 0
" Michahell Cole p'dictus 20° Novembris, 06 00 0
"Patritms Darcey iuris peritus 21° Novembris,2 .... 02 00 0
"Sr Edward? Harrys p'dictus 21° Novembris, 00 1 1 0
"Jacob Rickman p'dictus 21° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Dna Guilielimi Parsons 22° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Dns Edwardus Blaney 22 Novembris, ........ 01 0 0
" Sr Carolus Coote iunior 23° Novembris, 01 00 0
"Johannes /eynch p'dictus 23° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Jaques quidam belga 24° Novembris, 00 10 0
uSr John Jephson p'dictus 24° Novembris, 00 12 6
" Mr Tatloe 25° Novembris, 00 7 0
"Dna Loftus p'dicta p eodem filio 27° Novembris, . . . 00 10 0
"Dna Loftus de Elley p'dicta 30° Novembris, 02 00 0
" Johannes Dillon iuris peritus p uxore 1° Decembris, . . 00 10 0
" Rogerus Johns Vicecomes de Rannalagh p filia Maria 2°
Dec., 01 00 0
" Idem p eadem 3° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Dns Dillon De Costellagh 4° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Sr Jacobus Dillon 5° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Jacobus Heygate p'dictus 6° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Dns de Rannalagh p eadem filia 7° Decembris, .... 01 00 0
• George Andrews, M. A., Prsecentor federate Catholicks of Ireland, 1643.
of St. Patrick's, Dublin, was an Eng- Darcy was an able lawyer, and M. P.,
lishman, and had been educated at Ox- and his "argument" had reference to
ford. His patent for the Deanery of the various arbitrary and illegal prac-
Limerick is dated August 31, 1603. In tices of Lord Strafford during his go-
1635 he was promoted to the Bishopric vernment of Ireland. Darcy himself
of Ferns and Leighlin. See Harris' ed. harshly treated by the Viceroy, who
of Ware's " Bishops." lost his head soon afterwards by judg-
2 Patrick Darcy, Esq., M. P., whose ment of the English House of Lords
memorable argument " delivered by the was selected by an inflamed House of
express order of the House of Commons Commons to bring forward all the viola-
in the Parliament of Ireland, 9 Junij, tions of the laws and constitution under
1641," was printed at Waterford by the authority and sanction of Strafford's
Thomas Burke, Printer to the Con- administration.
168
£ t. d.
««Sr Richardus Bolton protobaro Skecarij Regij, 7° De-
cemb., 04 00 0
" Dim de Elley p'dicta 9° Decembris, 02 00 0
«Sr Lucas /itzGerrald 14° Decembris, 01 05 0
« Robertas 'Bonney p'dictus minister 16° Decembris, . . . 01 00 0
44 Henricus Beck belga 18° Decembris, 03 00 0
44 Robertus Collume 19° Decembris, 00 10 0
"DAa Newcomen p Catlierina filia p'dicta 21° Decemb., . 00 6 0
"Dim de Elley p'dicta 24° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Paulus Davys amanuensis seu Clericus supremi senatus,
ab intestinoru tormentis liberatus, 25° Decembris, . . 01 00 0
" Robertas Columba p'dictus 26° Decembris, 00 10 0
44 Johannes /eynch p'dictus 27° Decembris, 00 15 0
"Robertus'Columbe p'dictus 30° Decembris, 00 10 0
" Ancilla Matronae Aissh p'dictae 2° Januarij, 00 10 0
'• Dim Dillon de Costellagh 4° Januarij, 01 00 0
"Johannes Blague 5° Januarij, 00 10 0
"Nicholaus Skarley p'dictus p filio 8° Januarij, .... 00 5 0
"Jacobus Heygate p'dictus 9° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Kyen Collune pro quodam infirmo 10° Januarij, ... 00 10 0
" Robertus Bonney minister p'dictus 11° Januarij, . . . 00 10 0
" Edmund Malloune senator p'dictus 13° Januarij, . . . 00 10 0
" Matrona Barnevile 14° Januarij, 01 00 0
"Edmundus Malloune p'dictus 16° January", 00 10 0
"Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus 18° Januarij, 01 00 0
"Matrona Johannis Fourd p consanguinea sua 20° Januarij, 00 10 0
u Comes Midioe Guilielimus Brabazon p'dictus 22° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Daniell ^follineaux p'dictus 24° Januarij, 01 00 0
" Sr/aithiull /ortescue j> uxore p'dicta 28° Januarij, . . 01 00 0
" Coniitissii ^Iidia3 p ancilla honoraria Sara 1° februarij, . 00 10 0
" Comes Midiffi p'dictus 2° februarij, 01 00 0
" Sr Robertus Hanna p uxore 9° februarij, 06 00 0
" Sr Christopherus Shiptorp 11° februarij, 00 10 0
" Matrona Leake p'dicta p ancilla., 00 10 0
" Matrona Beale 13° februarij, 00 5 0
" Dna Parsons p'dicta 15° februarij, 01 00 0
" Matrona Ware1 17° februarij, 00 10 0
" Comes Midise p'dictus 19° februarij, 01 00 0
" Mr Rochetbrt de Keilbryde 20° februarij, ...... 01 00 0
" Matrona Ware p'dicta 21° februarij, 00 10 0
" Matrona Pyers vidua p'dicta 22° februarij, 01 00 0
" Comes Midiae p'dictus 24° februarij, 01 00 0
" Mai rona Ware p'dicta 26° februarij, 00 10 0
44 Guilielimus Baggott 27° februarij 00 10 0
•5r Guilielimus Cole p filio Michaele p'dicto 29° febr., . . 05 11 0
" Matrona Ware p'dicta 1° Martij, 00 1 1 0
4k Comes Midiae p'dictus 2° Martij, 01 00 0
1 This was Lady Ware, wife of Sir James Ware, already mentioned.
169
£ s. d.
" Sr Richardus Bolthon p'dictus p dna sua 4° Martij, . . 03 00 0
"Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus 6° Martij, . 01 00 0
"Decanus Bernardus p'dictus p uxore 8° Martij, . . . 00 1 1 0
"Jacobus Why te pro filio 9° Martij, 00 10 0
"Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus 11° Martij, , 01 00 0
" Purcell in foro frumentario1 p filio 13° Martij, .... 00 5 0
"Mr Latinep Johanne Latine2 13° Martij 00 5 0
"Henricus Beck Mercator belga p'dictus 16° Martij, . . . 03 12 8
"Comes Midite p'dictus 19° Martij, 01 00 0
"Phrebe Vssher uxor primatis p'dicta 21° Martij, ... 00 10 0
" Smith centurio de Gleanawen 23° Martij, 00 10 0
" Honoraria quae elapso hoc anno accepimus adimplent surnam
£283 19s- 2d. sterl. pro quibus % cunctis aliis, quas
de thesauris infinites suaa bonitatis in nos im-
meritos conferre dignatur, ipsi Deo
largitori honor t gloria a nobis
rependitur.
Anno Dni 1632.
" Sr Randal McSaurle buy vice comes Duneleiuse t comes
Antrim3 in aschytim hydrope incidit, opera mea implo-
rauit, qua libenter impendere voleba, p qua 5° Aprilis
elargitus est mihi Septemdecem libros ster, . . . . 17 00 0
"Johannes Greinhame p'dictus 13° & 14° Aprilis, . . . 00 12 0
" Daniel Mollineaux p'dictus 16° Aprilis, 01 00 0
" Vidua Staughton 17° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Johannes Carbrey pro filio 17° Aprilis, 00 3 0
" Robertus Bonney minister p'dictus 18° Aprilis, . ... 01 10
" Vidua Staughton p'dicta 18° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Johannes Greinhame p'dictus 19° Aprilis, 00 6 0
" Cooper cervisiarius4 19° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Dna Newcomen p'dicta p filia 20° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Mr Markhame pro uxore 21° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Vidua Staughton p'dicta 22° Aprilis, 00 00 0
" Sr William Vssher senior 23 ' Aprilis, 02 00 0
" Matrona Leake p'dicta 23° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Johannes Dillon juris peritus p'dictus 24° Aprilis, ... 00 10 0
"Mr Markhame p'dictus p eodem uxore 24° Aprilis, . . . 00 10 0
"Johannes Dillon jurisperitus p'dictus 24° Aprilis, . . . 00 10 0
"Mr Markhame p'dictus p eadern uxore 24° April., . . . 00 10 0
"Vidua Staughton p'dicta 25° Aprilis, 00 10 0
1 i. e. Purcell of the Corn Market. whom the Earl of Essex, when Viceroy
2 Probably of Morristown Lattin, Co. of Ireland (who with the Earls of Kil-
Kildare, where the family is now, and dare and of Ormonde routed the Scots
has been seated. in 1557, and received several of them
3 Sir Randal Mac Donnell, Earl of into protection afterwards), adorned
Antrim, Viscount and Baron Dunluce with a golden sword and silver gilt
of the Glynnes, knighted by Lord Faulk- spurs, &c. See Aaron Crossly's " Irish
land when Lord Deputy. He was de- Peerage."
scended from Donald Mac Donnell, * i. e. A brewer.
170
£ s. d.
Dna Ware pro ancilla 27° Aprilis, 00 1 1 0
Matrona Springhame 27° Aprilis, 00 3 0
Johannes Dillon jurisperitus p'dictus 28° Aprilis, ... 00 10 0
Sr Johannes Clothworthey 28° Aprilis 01 7 0
Mr Chambers 29° Aprilis, 00 10 0
Sr Guilielimus Vssher p'dictus 29° Aprilis,
4 Mr Neues examinator p'dictus p uxore, 00 5 6
1 Mr Man warring p'dictus 30° Aprilis, 00 10 0
* Vidua Staugh ton p'dicta 30° Aprilis, 01 00 0
'Johannes Dillon p'dictus jurisperitus 30° Aprilis, ... 00 10 0
1 Robertus Meredith pro uxore 1° Maij, 01 00 0
" Sr Jacobus Ware Senior1 1° Maij, 00 10 0
" Dna Parsons p'dicta 2° Maij, 01 00 0
" Guilielimus Buckley 2° Maij, 00 10 0
"Mr Man warring 3° Maij, 00 10 0
" Sr Jacobus Ware Senior p'dictus 3° Maij, 00 10 0
"Johannes Latine pletoricus et maniacus 4° Maij, ... 01 10 0
" Matrona Aylmer 4° Maij, 01 00 0
" Daniell Mollineaux 5° Maij, 01 00 0
41 Mr Drayton minister 5° Maij, 00 14 0
" Comes Midi* p'dictus 6° Maij, 01 00 0
" Guilielimus Buckley p'dictus 6° Maij, 01 00 0
44 Guilielimus Vssher iunior 7° Maij, 01 00 0
"Mathaeus/oord pro filia Catherina 8° Maij, 00 10 0
" Mr Symons pro fratre suo 8° Maij, 00 10 0
"Matheus/oordpfilia9°Maij, 0010 0
" Guilielimus Buckley p'dictus p uxore 10° Maij, . . . 00 10 0
"Mr Markham p'dictus p eadem uxore 10° Maij, .... 00 10 0
" Pa tricius Darcey iurisperitus p'dictus 11° Maij, . . . . 01 00 0
" Petrus Turner 11° Maij, 00 11 0
" Matrona Elmer de Lyons2 12° Maij 01 00 0
41 Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus 13° Maij, 01 00 0
14 Mr Gouldingp filio 13° Maij, 00 5 0
" Richardus Talbott de Mallahoyde3 cachecticus, sorbuticus
et obstructionibus lienis obnoxius, 14° Maij, . . . . 0110 0
44 Mr East p uxore p'dicta 15° Maij, 00 10 0
"M'Watterhouse pro filio 16° Maij, 00 2 6
" Johannes Dillon p'dictus 16° Maij, 00 10 0
*4 Richardus Talbott p'dictus p uxore 17° Maij, . . . . 01 00 0
" Dns Jacobus Vssher pseudoprimas p'dictus 18° Maij, . . 01 00 0
" M East p'dictus p eadem uxore 19° Maij, 00 10 0
44 Mr Cooper p'dictus ceruisiarius 20° Maij, 00 10 0
" Mr Symon p fratre p'dicto 21° Maij, 00 10 0
" Mr Nugent p uxore 22° Maij, 00 10 0
" Daniel Mullineaux p'dictus 23° Maij, 01 00 0
' Sir James Ware, the elder, and fa- branch of the ancient Catholic family of
ther of the illustrious Irish antiquary. Aylmer.
1 Lyons, in the county of Kildare, 3 The ancestor of the Lord Talbot of
was the ancient patrimony of the elder Malahide, county of Dublin.
171
£ «. d.
" Maims o Dawrin1 de Thoumonia 24° Maij, 01 00 0
" Sr Dudleus Northon p filio naturale Johanne 25° Maij, . 00 10 0
44 Sr Guilielimus Talbott baronettus. quern calculo vessicae la-
borasse contra alioru Doctoru opinione, et refragantibus
ipsis Lythotomis, manifeste demons traueram, 26° Maij, . 01 2 0
"Mr Nugent p'dictus p uxore 27° Maij, 01 2 0
' Mr Rochfort £ filio 28° Maij 00 10 0
* Mr Nugent p uxore p'dicta 29° Maij, 00 5 0
' Mr Symons p'dictus 29° Maij, 00 10 0
' Kobertus Bonney p'dictus minister de Laurecore 31° Maij, 00 10 0
4 Nicholaus Loftus p'dictus p uxore 1° Junij, ...» . 00 10 0
" Quasda generosa ruri degens 2° Junij, 00 10 0
" Daniell Mollineaux p'dictus 4° Junij, 01 00 0
" Quida inuenis scriba 5° Junij, 00 5 0
41 Sr Anthonius Brabazon frater comitis Midensis p'dictus 5°
Junij 02 00 0
" Comitissa Eingalliae 6° Julij, 01 00 0
" Comes Midiae p'dictus 7° Junij, . . , 01 00 0
44 Sr Johannes Philpott iudex, nephriticus 8° Junij . . . 01 00 0
" Johannes Cleark p'dictus p se 9° Junij, 00 10 0
"Matrona Leake p'dicta 10 Junij, 00 10 0
44 Mr Laddame iurisperitus 11° Junij, 00 10 0
44MrHogaine 12° Junij, 00 10 0
"Mr. Laddame 13° Junii, 00 10 0
" Johannes Cleark p'dictus 14° Junij, 00 10 6
" Mr Nugent p'dictus p p'dicta uxore 15° Junij, . . . . 00 10 0
44 Idem pro eadem 16° Junij, 01 2 0
44 Mr Laddame iurisperitus p'dictus 17° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Comes Midiae p'dictus 18° Junij, . . . 01 00 0
44 Thomas Ley scriba in officio Pipae 19° Junij, .... 00 10 0
" Matroa Moyens uxor pseudo Episcopi p nepote 20°
Junij, 00 6 0
"Matrona Greynhame p filio Thoma p'dicto 20° Junij, . . 00 5 0
" Johannes Cleark p'dictus 21° Junij, . 00 10 0
4' Matrona Neylp filiola 22° Junij, . ..." 00 5 0
" Comitissa /ingalliae p'dicta 22° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Dna Parsons p'dicta 23° Junij, 00 10 0
" Georgius Andre wes p'dictus pseudo decanus Lyfrlicensis
23° Junij, 00 10 0
44 Doctor Hoyle puritanus pro sorore 24° Junij, .... 01 00 0
" Matrona Greynhame p'dicta p Abigaele/ulk 26° Junij, . 00 6 0
44 Dfia Parsons p'dicta 28° Junij, 01 00 0
44 Johannes Cleark p'dictus 29° Junij, 00 10 0
"Matrona Moyens p nepote p'dicto 30° Junij, 00 6 0
44 M' Rochefort p filio p'dicto 2° Julij, ....... 00 10 0
" Johannes Cleark p'dictus 3° Julij, 00 10 0
1 Daverin is one of the most ancient met with to this day in the county of
names in Thomond, and is frequently Clare.
172
£ s. d.
" 4° Julij p fectus fui Lyrrlicu ubi a diQsis segris obtinui
£8 10*. ster. deinde 7° August! insequentis reuersus
sum Dubliniu,1 08 10 0
" Johannes Carbrey p filio Ignatio 8° Augusti, . . . .•>
" Robertus Bonney p'dictus minister 14° Augusti, ... 02 1
"Christopherus/itz Williams 17° Augusti, 00 10 0
"Mr Carbrey p'dictus p uxore 17° Augusti, 00 2 6
"Johannes Greynhame p'dictus 5 uxore 19° Augusti, . . 00 5 0
" Edwardus Johannis Arthurius nephriticus 23° Augusti, . 01 00 0
" Johannes Rawson p'dictus 25° Augusti, ...... 01 12 6
" Christianus Borr p'dictus p filio Johanne 27 Augusti, . 00 10 6
" Idem p eodem filio 29° Augusti, 00 15 6
" Gilbertus Dumbill p ancilla 2° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes Greynham p'dictus p uxore p'dicta 5° Septem., 00 10 0
" Nicholaus Eustace 7° Septembris, 01 00 0
" Matrona Bale p'dicta 7° Septembris, 00 5 0
14 Doctor Robertus Vssher p'dictus p filio Edwardo 10°
Septem., 00 10 0
"Johannes Greinham p'dictus 12° Septembris, 00 10 0
"Doctor Robertus Vssher p'eodem filio 13° Septem., . . 00 8 0
"Johannes Greinham p'dictus p eadem uxore 14° Sept., . 00 10 0
" Idem p eadem 15° & 16° Septembris, 01 00 0
" Johannes /oord p puero Barrott generoso 17° Septemb., . 00 10 0
" Decanus Barkley p uxore 20° Septembris, 06 00 0
" Archideaconus Matcheson 24° Septembris, 00.15 0
" Mr Graunt de Ardemach 30° Septembris, 01 00 0
u Mr May de Charlemont p filia 1° Octobris, 10 00 0
"Dfis Jacobus Vssher pseudo primas Ardmachanus 7°
Octob., 07 00 0
"Comitissa/ingallise p'dicta 9° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Comes Antrim p'dictus 11° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Robertus Bonney p'dictus minister 13° Octobris, . . . 00 10 Q
"Johannes Greinham p'dictus 14° Octobris, 00 6 0
"Comitissa/ingallise p'dicta 16° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Nicholaus Eustace p'dictus 17° Octobris, 01 10 0
"Johannes /oord p iuvene Barrott p'dicto 18° Octob., . . 00 10 0
"Comitissa/ingallise p'dicta 19° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Laurentius Davys p'dictus 20° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Doctor Robertus Vssher p sorore uxoris 21° Octobris, . . 00 10 0
" Mr Rochefort de Kilbride 23° Octobris, 01 00 0
uDna/ortescue p'dicta p filio 24° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Dna Dillon p filia sua Bes/olioth 25° Octobris, ... 01 00 0
'* Nicholaus Eustace p'dictus 26° Octobris, 00 15 0
" Quida ruri degens 27° Octobris, 00 3 0
i Dr. Arthur kept separate memo- These memoranda are written on slips,
randa of the names of his patients in and are preserved in the MSS. ; we may
Limerick, and of the fees paid to him by refer to them in due course, as they are
them during these periodical visits. worth preserving.
173
£ *. (L
" Richard us Wade 27° Octobris, 00 5 0
" Robertus Cusake de Rathgare 28° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Johannes /againe de/elthrom p nepote herede 29° Oct., . 01 00 0
" Robertas Cusake p'dictus 30° Octobris, 00 10 0
"Mr Rochefort de Kilbride p'dictus 31° Octobris, . . . 01 00 0
" Robertas Cusake p'dictus 1° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Dns Jacobus Vssher pseudo primas p'dictus 2° Novemb., 02 00 0
" Robertus Cusake p'dictus 3° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Matrona Moyens p'dicta 3° Novembris, 00 5 0
" Robertus Cusake p'dictus 4° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Dna Samuelis Smyth 5° Novembris, ....... 00 10 0
" Dfia Parsons p'dicta 6° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes Carbrey p famulo 7° Novembris, 00 5 0
" Matrona Barneville de Droumniagh1 7° Novembris, . . 00 3 0
" Dns Yicecomes Merion p filia/rancisca 8° Novemb., ..0120
1 f Patritius Darcey iurisperitus p'dictus 9° Novembris, . . 01 00 0
" Nicholaus Eustace 3? uxore 10° Novembris, 01 00 0
" Mr Barringthon p'dictus studiosus 11° Novembris, . . . 00 10 0
"Robertus Cusake p'dictus 12° Novembris, 00 10 0
"Sr Johannes Cloth worthey p'dictus 13° Novembris, . . 01 00 0
" Guilielimus Brickdall 14° Novembris, ....... 00 10 0
'* Quida promus ceruisiae 14° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Robertus Cusake p'dictus 15° Novembris, ..... 00 10 0
" Idem p uxore Alsona Georgii Sexten 16° Novembris, . . 00 10 0
44 Matrona Phoebe Yssher p'dicta 17° Novembris, .... 01 00 0
" Robertus Cusake <p p'dicta uxore 18° Novembris, . . . 00 10 0
" Idem p eadem 19° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes /oord p'dictus p iuuene Jacobo Gould 20° Nov., 02 00 0
" Robertus Cusak p p'dicta uxore 22° Novembris, ... 00 6 0
" Idem p eadem 24° Novembris, 00 6 0
" Mr Arthurus Blaney 25° Novembris, 01 00 0
" Robertus Bysse p'dictus p filio Arthuris 26° Nov., . . 00 10 0
" Dns Henricus Baro Blaney 28° Novembris, 0150
" Matrona Phoebe Vssher p'dicta 30° Novembris, .... 01 00 0
"Mr Arthurus Blaney p'dictus 1° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Dna Parsons p'dicta p filio Johanne 2° Decembris, ... 00 10 0
" Dns Vicecomes Dominicus Sarsfeeld Judex 3° Decembris, 00 10 0
" Sr Johannes Jephson 4° Decembris, 01 00 0
" Johannes Cleark p'dictus p amico 5° Decembris, ... 00 5 0
" Doctor Robertus Vssher p'dictus p uxore 6° Decemb., . 00 10 0
" Idem p eadem 7° Decembris, 00 1 1 0
" Mr Winkfeeld p uxore 8° Decembris, 00 10 0
" Johannes /oord p'dictus p Henrico Neill 9° Decemb., . . 01 00 0
"Johannes Southwell p filio Johanne 10° Decembris, . . 01 00 0
" Edwardus Janes senator p filio 1 1° Decembris, . . . . 01 00 0
1 The Barnwells flourished among the several families of the name enjoyed
chief gentlemen of Meath before and extensive possessions in that county in
down to the reign of Elizabeth, and that reign, and afterwards.
2 A
174
£ ».
d.
44 Diia Dillon p'dicta p filio Carey1 12° Decernbris, . -V. V
01 00
0
" Mr Winkfeeld p'dictus p uxore 13° Decembris, • • * -«
00 10
0
44 Dna Dillon p'dicta p eodem suo filio 13° Decembris, . .
01 00
0
44 Johannes Southwell p'dictus p eodem filio 14° Decemb., .
00 10
0
" Matrona Moyens p'dicta p filia 15° Decembris, . . . .
00 10
0
44 Dna Joanna Dillon vidua Costellogallan 16 Decem., . .
01 00
0
" Catherina Newcomen p se 17° Decembris, ......
00 10
0
" Dna Mayeard p'dicta p filia 18° Decembris, ....-„
00 5
0
44 Thomas Ley p'dictus p servo 18° Decembris, . . . ,
00 10
0
44 Dna Mayeard p'dicta p eade filia 19° Decembris, . . .
00 10
0
44 Nicholaus Whyte p sua uxore Dna Blundle 23° Decemb.,
01 00
0
44 Matrona Plunkett p'dicta p nepote ex fratre Panthine
26° Decembris,
00 5
0
44 Das Vicecomes Tath p se 29° Decembris,
02 00
0
" Dfis Vicecomes Dillon de Keilkenny West 1° January,
01 00
0
01 00
0
" Dns Vicecomes de Baltinglas p'dictus p filio 4° Januarij, .
00 10
0
44 Dns Vicecomes Duneleiuse 7° Januarij
05 00
0
"Georgius Deuenish p'dictus p uxore 2d. 9°
00 10
0
" Mr Geyves de Drohedah p uxore 10° Januarij, . . , .
01 00
0
"Matrona Phoebe Vssher p'dicta 14° Januarij, . . . .
03 00
0
"Johannes chyvers iurisperitus p'dictus 16° Januarij, . .
00 10
0
44 Matrona Baggott 1 7° Januarij, ....,..,.
00 10
0
" Doctor Robertus Vssher p uxore p'dicta 18° Januarij,
00 10
0
44 Dna Parsons p'dicta p ancilla 19° Januarij,
00 10
0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p filio Thoma 20° Januarij, , . .
00 10
0
"Jacobus Rawson nephriticus, p'dictus 22° Januarij, . .
01 00
0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus p eodc filio 24° Jan., . .
00 10
0
"Mr Winkfeeld p'dictus p uxore 25° Januarij,
00 10
0
* Johannes Greinhame p'dictus 28° Januarij,
00 6
0
' Mr Wingfeelde p'dictus p p'dicta uxore 29° Januarij,
00 10
0
' Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus p eodem ministro 30° Jan.,
00 10
0
' Dna Dillon de Kilkenney West p'dicta 31° Januarij, . .
01 00
0
* Johannes Greinham p'dictus p nepote l°/ebruarij, . . .
00 6
0
'Dna Dillon p'dicta 2* /ebruarij,
01 00
0
1 Mr Wingfeelde p'dictus p uxore p'dicta 3°/ebruarij, . .
00 10
0
4 Johannes Blake jurisperitus Galuiensis2 4° Febr., . . .
01 00
0
' Dna Dillon p'dicta 5° /ebruarij,
01 00
0
4 Jacobus Browne scriba p uxore 6° /ebruarij,
00 10
0
'Josephus Ware p filia 7° /ebruarij,
00 10
0
4 Sr Robertus /oord 8° /ebruarij,
01 00
0
4 Dua Dillon p'dicta 9° /ebruarij, . .
01 00
0
'Sr Robertus /oord p'dictus 1 1° /ebruarij,
01 00
0
4 Edmundus Smyth scriba in officio P. Perciual 13°/et>r., .
00 5
0
> This son became the rather cele- lands in Killnalongerty,
Vv«.n4-st<1 /''~1~__1 n T-»MI__ 1 /. , . O V1
&c., &c., in
the
brated Colonel Carey Dillon, who fought county of Tipperary.
afterwards on the side of Cromwell, and 2 Counsellor John Blake, of Galway
was rewarded with grants of forfeited who was eminent in his profession.
175
£ s. d.
"Dna Parsons p'dicta p famulo 14° /ebruarij, 00 10 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus p famula Thoma Litle 15°
/ebruarij, . . 00 1 1 0
" Johannes Harrys Scriba hypochondriacae melancholiae ob-
noxius l6°/ebruarU> 00 10 0
" Johannes /oord p'dictus p iuuene Plunkett 17° /ebrij., . 01 00 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dict. p eode famulo 18° /ebruarij, 01 00 0
"Sr Thomas Dutton p filio 20°/ebruarij, 00 1 1 0
"Johannes Chyvers iurisperitus p'dict. 21° /ebruarij, . . 00 6 6
" Dna Parsons p'dicta 22° /ebruarij, 00 10 0
u Matrona Allen iunior 23° /ebruarij, 00 10 0
" Sir Thomas Button p'dict p eode filio 24° /ebruarij, . 00 10 0
"Jacobus Browne scriba p'dictus p uxore p'dicta 25° /e-
bruarij, 01 00 0
"Edwardus Arthurius p'dictus 26° /ebruarij, 00 1 1 0
" Edmundus Smyth scriba p'dictus 26° /ebruarij, .... 00 5 0
"Ellina Talloun vidua p'dicta 27° /ebruarij, ...... 00 5 0
" Sr Dudleus Northon p'dictus 27 VebruariJ> • • • • • 01 00 0
" Sr Thomas Button £ sua Dna 1° Martij, 01 00 0
"Sr Richardus Bolthon protobaro Skeckarij1 p filio Johanne
2° Marti, 02 00 0
'* Mr Vnderwood studiosus 3° Martij, 00 5 0
" Dna Parsons p'dicta 4° Martij, 0110
"S'Dudleus Northon p'dictus 5° Martij 00 10 0
" Mr Nugent 6° Martij, 00 10 0
" Mr Vnderwood p'dictus 6° Martij, 00 5 0
" Matrona Barneueiul de Leaspopul 7° Martij, 02 00 0
" Beniamen Columb decanus Ecclesise sti. Patricij Dubli-
nensis p uxore secunda 8° Martij, 00 10 0
" Diis Jacobus Vssher pseudo primas praedictus 10° Martij, . 01 00 0
" Dna de Merioun 11° Martij 02 00 0
" Dna Clothworthy iunior 12° Martij, 01 00 0
" Johannes /oord p iuuene Plunkett p'dicto, 01 00 0
" Johannes Dumbill, scriba, hepatis Discrasia calida multu
bilis p ventu generante, incidit in Diarrhoeam Diuturna
1 contumacissima : 14° Martij, 02 00 0
" Beniamen pseudo decanus Columb p'dict p eadem uxore
15° Martij, 00 1 1 0
" Mr Vnderwood studiosus p'dictus 15° Martij, .... 00 5 6
"Matrona Springhame p'dicta 17° Martij, 00 5 0
" Quida ruri veniens 17° Martij, 00 2 6
"Mr Edmundus Harrys 19° Martij, 00 10 0
"Richardus Talbott de Mallahoyde p'dictus 22° Martij, . 0011 0
*' Mr Franciscus Clotworthey 23° Martij, 01 00 0
" Dns Thomas Roper Vicecomes de Baltinglas p'dictus 24°
Martij, 01 2 0
• His father appears to have been and antiquary, a retainer of the Duke
Edmund Bolton, the celebrate d historian of Buckingham, and a Catholic.
176
£ a. d.
" Thomas Johannis Arthurius p'dictus £ uxore 24° Martij, 00 1 1 0
" Ellina Talloim p'dicta vidua 24« Martij, '•
" Honoraria huius prseteriti anni admiplent
Sumam £233 105. Od. ster., In quibus 1
cseteris subsidiis tenuitati nostrse sub-
leuande pspectis diuina supplices
agnoscimuspuidentia, qua nobis
ppitia semper futura deprecamur.
(To be Continued.)
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THOMAS DINELEY,
ESQUIRE, GIVING SOME ACCOUNT OF HIS VISIT TO
IRELAND IN THE REIGN OF CHARLES II.
COMMUNICATED BY EVELYN PHILIP SHIRLEY, ESQ., M. A., WITH
NOTES BY THE HON. ROBERT O'BRIEN, AND THE REV. JAMES
GRAVES.
(Concluded from p. 91.)
Ross IloE1 — In the County of Thomond, Barony of Tullagh, and
parish of Kilmurry, part of the Estate of ye Honble the Lord Vis-
count Clare, now in the possession of Mr. John2 Fennel, is a fair
seat scituate among good Lands and Orchards, with a very pleasant
and profitable large Poole or Lough on the one side thereof
abounding with large Trouts.3
1 Ross Roe castle was built by Shyda the two sons of Lord Inchiquin, advanced
Camm Mac Namara, who was the per- against the Earl, plundered the sur-
son who founded the Abbey of Quin in rounding country, and burned the town
1402. His son, Fingin Mac Namara, had of Ross Roe. This lay in the middle of
a son Loughlin, who had a son Florence, the Mac Namaras' territory, who had
father of Florence, who died 1602, and submitted to the Earl of Thomond,
mortgaged it to Nicholas Stritch of Li- covenanting "that they should ever con-
merick. This Florence had a son, Fin- duct themselves faithfully and without
neen Mirgagh, who died 1st May, 1621, malice towards the Earl and his heirs,"
leaving Nydar, his son and heir, who and "that they would not wage war or
redeemed Stritche's mortgage, and ob- oppose the Earl or his heirs for ever;1'
tained, on 5th June, 1629, livery and thus admitting the new English law of
seizin of his father's possessions. He succession.
obtained license to alienate to Daniel In faith of this undertaking, the
O'Brien, afterwards Lord Clare. whole of the east of the country, from
In 1564, during the contest between Scarriffto Rinanna, rose to aid the Earl,
Donald O'Brien, the elected Prince of but the invaders having secured a safe
Thomond, and the Earl of Thomond, position, slew about 100 of the Earl's
the latter happened to be staying at soldiers ; however, not feeling able to
Ross Roe Castle, when Donald O'Brien, contend against the increasing forces
with the aid of his younger brother, and which were assembling from all parts,
177
Here are also great plenty of Wilde Fowle.
About a mile and half from hence, by water, between the Castles
of Rallahin and Rathfoelane ; this lough of Ross Eoe runs under
ground for half an English mile, being opposed by hills and rocks,
at last breaks out sofarr off that the possessor, John Colpoys, Esqr.,
a very worthy English Gentleman sayes, (as the Spanyards do of
the river Ama), that he feeds sheep and herds upon a Green-Bridge.
Camden takes notice of one much more remarkeable than this
of the river Mole, in Surrey, undermineing for severall miles to-
gether.
There is also another Green-bridge in WALES, the river under-
mineing the Earth disembogues itself into the sea ; there some
give out that they have put in a living Goose into the place where
the water falls, and that she hath swam out at the other end, but
with loss of all its feathers.
This Stream of Ross Roe Lough at its riseing again from Mr.
Colpoys his Green-bridge turnes a mill belonging to John Cooper,
Esqr.
CaftU.
G. Knocpogue4 Castle. D. Clownherne Castle. E. Tomenlough Church ruines.
V. Cragamore hills. K. Knochalappa (Anglice), the Hills bed, being an hil
whence the Prospect was taken. T. The Lough, or Water.
and probably having done as much mis-
chief as they intended, they returned by
night across the Fergus river, " carry-
ing with them their preys and acquisi-
tions, without receiving wound or in-
Jurv-"
By the Petty Census, it appears that
Colonel William Purefoy was put in pos-
session of the Castle of Ross Roe, but
at the Restoration it was granted, 19°,
Chas. II., with Knock Bryan, to Viscount
Clare, who mortgaged it to George
Mathews of Thomastown, and after-
wards to Colonel Robert Maud of Dun-
drum, which mortgage having been
paid by John Clignett, he obtained a
lease in 1671 from Lord Clare.
Colonel William Purefoy did not al-
178
Quix or QUTN Town distant from Ross Roe castle four English
miles: here it was that March 29, 1601, Captain Flower from Li-
merick lodged and fought the Connaught and Ulster Rebells, who
were drawn to an head to invade Munster with the assistance of
Teg, sonne and heire to Sr Tirloghe O'Brien. The Lord Tho-
monds company here hurt & slew many, among which of note were
Walter Burk, son to the blind Abbot, and Tegg aforenamed.
Quiif TOWN is twelve miles from Limerick, six from Six mile-
bridge, 4 from Rallahine Castle in the road to Galloway. It hath
nothing worth the note of a Traveller but the mines of an Abbey,
which 1 sketcht off on the other leafe.
There are two faires a year, which in times past were famous
for quarelling of two families of numerous ofspring hereabouts, viz.,
the Molounys and Macnamarras, in which 8 persons, Ulster men,
were kill'd and buried in one hole.
It is storied also that at the drinking of a small barrell of sack,
that the Ulster men being absent often, and thought to go out to
Icake between every other glass : It seems they went out to
drinke Usque bath, Aqua vita3 so call'd, yey say.d to warme their
stomachs which they thought would be overcooled with the sack,
so accustomed they are to extraordinary hott liquors more than any
people I ever heard of.
together relinquish his claim ; for in 1683
he had a suit with Lord Clare about
Ross Roe, but the forfeiture of Lord
Clare's estates andtlie new grants made
to Burton, Westby, and Mac Donnell,
put an end to the matter, for Ross Roe
and Knock Brien were included in their
grants.
2 " Robert" is written in the margin
here.
3 The stream which flows from Ross
Roe, Fenloe, and Ballycar lakes, is only
a small one in summer, passing under
ground between Ballycar (late belong-
ing to the Colpoys family) and New-
market, and again under the demesne
at Carrigoran, the seat of Sir Augustine
Fitz Gerald. There are several other
instances in the county of Clare arising
from the cavernous formation of the
limestone which prevails through the
centre of the county of Clare— the
" Toomeens" in the demesne of Kiltanon
being the most remarkable in the county.
In wet weather, the inability of these
passages to carry off the water causes
the nu i erous Turloghs which exist in
Clare.
4 Knapogue Castle: built by John
Mac Macon Mac Shyda Mac Namara, and
was, in 1576, in the hands of Turlough
O'Brien.
In 1584 John Mac Namara was in
possession, who, 7th August, 1585,
signed the composition with Sir John
Perrott, as John Mac Namara of Knap-
pock, called Mac Namar of West Clan-
cullen. This branch of the family, who
added Finn to their name, were lords of
West Clancullen, and possessed the cas-
tles of Dangan, Iviggen, which gave the
name to the barony before it was changed
to Bunratty, and also the castle of Crat-
loe, Moell, &c.
Knapogue was in possession of
Daniel Mac Namara Finn in 1641, who
died in 1652, but his castle was given
over by the Cromwellians to Arthur
Smith, Daniel's son. John Finn having
been declared a Protestant in 1655, he
obtained a settlement at Doonmulvihil
Castle in Inchicronan parish, and, after
the Restoration, his son (36 Chas. II.)
obtained a grant of considerable estates.
From this branch of the Mac Namara
sprung the Mac Namara of Doolen, now
represented in chief by Colonel Francis
Mac Namara of Ennistymon.
The castle is covered in and occupied
by Lord Dunboyne.
179
The faires of Quin are of black Cattle, as Cows, Oxen, &c.,
which are so called here.
The Abbey5 was anciently of the Order of St. Francis ; here are
seen the ancient Vaults & Burial places of the Mac Namarras6 &
the Molounys, and hither they are brought if they dye in the
Kingdom to be interr'd with their Ancestors.
The Ruins of QUIN-ABBY lately harbouring some Friers of the order of
Sl. Francis.
4 In ancient times there was an abbey
at this place, of which there is now no
vestige ; but there is a record of the
death of Scannlan, Abbot of Tuaim
Finlocha, i. e. the mound of the bright
lake, in 944.
This parish formed a part of the
territory of Traddery, which, in the
middle of the 10th century, was taken
possession of by the Norsemen or Danes,
with the intention of making it a gar-
rison, from which to conquer all Mun-
ster. To secure their position, they
raised a fence, extending from the Ard-
sollus river to near Six-mile-Bridge;
and on the top of the hill of Mooghaun,
near Tomfenlough church, are still the
remains of three walls of'circumvallation,
enclosing a large space of ground, and
called the Danish Fort. From this point
there is a view commanding the whole
plain country of Clare, from the bound-
ary of Connaught to the river Shannon ;
from Limerick to Foynes.
Afterwards Traddery was occupied
by the clann Delbhaeth of the Ui Neill
Buidhe, whose chief residence was at
Fion Luaragh.
e The building of this abbey is dated
from 1402, by some, but, according to
Ware, it was built in 1433, in which
year Pope Eugene IV. granted a license
to Sioda Cam Mac Namara, Lord of
Clancuillen, to place the friars of Strict
Observance in this monastery, they
being the first body of the Franciscan
Order who accepted those rules in Ire-
land.
Mac Namara directed that this
should be the burial place of himself and
of his tribe. He died in 1444.
In 1586, the castle of Quinhi was in
the possession of'Donough Mac Murrough
O'Brien, the monastery of Quin, with
all its manors, advowsons, lands, &c.,
having been granted to Sir Turlogh
O'Brien of Ennistymon.
Dinely is wrong in stating that Sir
Turlogh O'Brien's son, Teige, was
slain at Quin, for though Teige did join
in this raid, notwithstanding the loyalty
of his father, he was wounded at Inch-
180
On the South side on ye Floor of the Abbatial Church of Quin-
Barony is seen this monument.7
THIS IS THE SNTIENT TVMBE OF •
On the R' hand of the Altar at the East end of the Abby
Church of'Quin is seen this monument of black marble of the
MoLouNYS.8 Family very ancient.
icronan, and removed to the Earl of
Clanrickard's castle of Leitrim, where
he died about a week after.
To this abbey retired William Burke,
the blind abbot, who had claimed to be
the Mac William of Connaught, but be-
ing expelled by Sir Richard Bingham,
afterwards wandering from territory to
territory, found refuge here, and was
buried in the abbey in 1598.
On the accession of King James I.,
when the Roman Catholics supposed their
religion was to be restored, they repaired
this abbey.
1611. Sir William Fisher, Bart., ob-
tained a grant of the friars' mill and
some land on the east side of the river
the estate of the abbey.
Bishop Pocock states that it " was one
of the most entire monasteries that he
had seen in his time in Ireland. The
high altar was entire, with an altar on
each side of the chancel. On the south
side is a chapel with three or four altars,
and on one therein is a Gothic figure
in relief of some saint. On the north
side is a fine monument of one of the Mac
Namaras of Rane. On a stone by
the high altar the name of Kenedy ap-
pears in large letters."
'•The cloister is peculiar in having
buttresses between the openings. There
are apartments on three sides of it — the
refectory, the dormitory, and another
grand room on the north of the chancel,
with vaulted rooms under them all. To
the north of the large room is a closet,
which leads through a private way to a
very strong round room, the walls of
which are nearly ten feet thick. In
the front of the monastery is a building
which seems to have been an apartment
for strangers ; and on the south-west
are two other buildings."
" On the wall, near the high altar, is
a representation of the Crucifixion in
stucco."
7 The inscription on this monument is
printed letter for letter with the origi-
nal. The last word may read CONOGH-
[ER] M [AC] NAMARRA.
8 There were several families of
O'Mullonys proprietors in the barony of
Tulla previous to the forfeitures of 1641.
Teige O'Mullony obtained land under the
Cromwellian Settlement at Killdonnel-
ballagh, in the parish of Tulla, of which
lands he obtained a grant at. the Resto-
ration. Another Connor O'Mullowny was
settled by the Cromwellians at Knocka-
doon, in the same parish.
To endow the church at Tulla, Mac Con
Mac Namara, 20° Richard II., granted
the then rector and his successors, 21
plough lands ; amongst which was Kil-
tanon, and an Inquisition was held by
directions of Sir Richard Bingham in
1585, who found that this alteration was
against the Statute of Mortmain. No
action seems to have taken upon this
till 1611, when an Inquisition was held
before Nicholas Kenny, the Escheator-
181
[Here is given a drawing of a mural monument, still extant,
and here erroneously attributed to the Molouny family. It is the
Mac Namara monument, as
proved by its inscription : the
drawing shows a table monu-
ment surmounted by three tre-
foil-headed niches, over which
is an entablature supported by
four pilasters.]
Opposite to the last Monu-
ment are seen the Remaines of
that belonging to the ancient
Family of the MACNAMARRAS.*
[Here there is also given
the view of Castle Mang from
the " Pacata Hibernia."]
The 4th of Novembr 1600,
Thomas Oge Fitz Gerald, con-
stable of this Castle10 for Jamas
Fitz Thomas, after his submis-
sion, delivered up unto the
young Earle of Desmond, James,
lately restored in blood,11 and
from the Tower of London
sent by her Matie into Ireland.
This Castle12 [Clonrond] and
the lands belonging thereto are
part of the Estate of Henry
Earle of Thomond, Governor
of this County, whose Deputy
Governor, George Stammers, Esqr., now High Sheriff 1681, holds
it of the sd Earle.
general ; but he could not get the jurors
to find the mortmain, for which they
were subjected to great trouble ; but
having afterwards summoned a more
compliant jury, the lands were declared
forfeited to the Crown, by reason of mort-
main ; and in 1613 granted to Nicholas
White of Dublin, from whom Kiltenan
and other lands passed to Sir Rowland
Delahoyd. His heir, Oliver Delahoyd,
having taken up arms with the Irish in
1641, lost the estate, which was granted
to Philip Bigoe. In 1713, William, Earl
of Inchiquin, made leases of an exten-
2
sive tract of country to James Molony
of Kiltannon, including the Abbey of
Corcomroe, in Burren, the fee of which
was afterwards purchased.
The present generation are deeply in-
debted to the present James Molony of
Kiltannon, Esq., whose public spirit and
generous expenditure has opened for
them the great tract of mountain country
lying between Tulla and Gal way ; which,
though thickly inhabited, was almost in-
accessible for traffic, as well as for his
efforts to introduce manufactures and
the growth of flax.
B
182
It s founded by Lionel Duke of Clarence, sirnamed Ant-
werje, the chlf city^f Flanders, & the Marquisate of the Holy
CtONROND13 CASTLE.
Empire, where he was borne, 3d son of Ed. 3, Earle of Ulster &
Lord of Connaught, the first who came over under the title of Lord
9 This monument is not now extant.
There were several families of the
Mac Namaras, who had considerable
possessions in the time of James L, when
the inquiry took place as to the title of
the Clare proprietors, viz.
Mac Namara Reagh of Fartane, now
corrupted to Fort Anne, represented the
principal branch, who had been lords of
East Clancuilen. Mac Namara Finn of
Knapogue represented the lords of West
Clancuilen. Mac Namara of Montallen,
of whom was Sir John Mac Namara,
Knt. ; Mac Namara of Ross Roe, before
mentioned; Mac Namara of Roslaragh;
Mac Namara of Kilkishen ; Mac Namara
of Danganbrack ; Mac Namara of Bally-
nahinch ; Mac Namara of Derrymore ;
Mac Namara of Coolreagh ; most of
whose castles are still standing.
10 i. e. Castle Mang.
11 This was the " Queen's Earl."
11 Before the English Invasion, the chief
place in this district was at DromclifP,
where there are still remains of a round
tower. This was the territory of the
Hy Cormaic, whose tribe name was
(XHehir.
After the English took possession of
Limerick, at the end of the 13th cen-
tury, the kingdom of Thomond, which
had before then included all North Mun-
ster, was reduced to the present county
of Clare, and part of Tipperary. Over
this Donough Cairbreach O'Brien ruled
as chief, and he located himself at Clon-
road, where he founded the monastery of
Inish-Clonroad. From that time Clon-
road became one of the mensal castles of
the chiefs of Thomond ; and during the
disputed successions of the following cen-
tury the possession was the constant
subject of contention.
In 1551, on the death of Murrough
O'Brien, who had surrendered his princi-
pality to Henry VIIL, Clonroad was
occupied by his nephew, Donough
O'Brien, who had succeeded to the Earl-
183
Lieutenant of ye Kingdome of Ireland in the year 1361, and in the
Reign of his Eoyall Father Edward the 3d; he died in the year
Clare Castle, its Prospect from the Road between it and the Town of Six mile
Bridge.
dom of Thomond, while Murrough's
son only succeeded to the barony of
Inchiquin. This Donough was tanist,
and, by right of Irish succession, would
have been prince ; but as the grant of the
earldom had only been for life, he sought
out and obtained in 1552, a grant of the
earldom to him and his issue male, and
at the same time obtained a grant of all
the honours and land which his uncle
held in right of the chieftainships to him-
self and heirs.
His next brother, Donald, who was
tanist, and therefore next in succession
to these mensal honours — for up to this
time all the ancient customs had been
maintained, the new peers having still
been " The O'Brien" in this territory —
became incensed at this deprivation, and
being joined by other uncles of Lord
Inchiquin, then a minor, attacked Earl
Donough at Clonroad, when they burned
and plundered the town, so that the
Earl was obliged to go into a tower to
protect himself; but he did not survive
for more than two months, some ac-
counts stating that he was slain by
Donald.
On the Earl's death, Donald was inau-
gurated Prince, and possessed himself of
the castles of Clonroad and Clare, to the
exclusion of his nephew, Connor, now
Earl of Thomond ; but (1585) the Earl
of Sussex having entered Thomond, took
the castle of Clonroad, and put the Earl
in possession. In 1570, when Earl Con-
nor drove Sir Edward Fy tton out of Tho-
mond for venturing to hold a Court of
Justice in Ennis, thereby setting aside his
chieftain rights, the Earl of Ormond was
sent by the Queen to chastise the Earl,
who, unable to compete with his force,
surrendered Clonroad and all his manors,
except the barony of Ibrickane, and
went to England to make submission to
the Queen. Sir Edward Fytton, in the
meantime, revisiting Ennis, placed a gar-
rison in Clonroad. Earl Connor having
been favourably received by the Queen,
was restored to his lands ; but from that
time Bunratty Castle appears to have
been the chief residence of the Earls of
Thomond.
Not a vestige of the castle of Clon-
road now remains — the last worked
stones having been removed during the
present century, towards building the
house at Derrymore, and residue used
in buildings in Ennis, or repairing
roads.
184
1361 and lieth buried by hia fyrst wife Elizabeth daughter and
hefreof W Ham de Burgh, Earle of Ulster, ,n the Chancell of the
Priory Church of Augustine, in Clare in the County oi Suffolk.
The Lord Ireton and !Sr Charles Coot, in the year 1651, beseiged
13 The settlement of Donough Cair- lowed by his founding the Abbey of Imp
breach O'Brien at Clonroad, was fol- Cludna TCampoba, for Franciscan Fri-
185
and took this Castle of Clare, and the most considerable pass in the
Countrey, whence they then sent a summons to the City of Gal-
loway.
The ABBEY of CLARE,14 which lyeth between the Castle of that
name and the Town of Ennis, is also thought to have been founded
by the sayd Duke of Clarence, for the love he bore and in memory
to a Priory of that name in Suffolk where his first wife lyes buried,
after whose death he was married again unto Violenta the sister of
John Galeas Duke of Myllane whereto he journied.
Ruins of the Abbey of Clare.
S' Castle'
G. Abbey.
Clare
^Iare>
[Here are given extracts from Stow and Camden.J
ars Minors, and received many subse-
quent benefactions from the Princes of
Thomond, who were generally buried
here. In 1375 Edward III., moved with
compassion from the poverty of this
house, and scarcity of provisions in
these parts of the country, granted a
license for the guardian and friars to
enter the English Pale to purchase pro-
visions.
In 1543, Dr. Nelan petitioned Henry
VIII. for a grantof this monastery, "not
yet dissolved," for having "travelled
much," to induce O'Brien, Prince of Tho-
mond, to make his submission, which
petition was granted, but only for a
limited time, for the Crown was in pos-
session in 1577-
In 1621 William Dongan obtained a
grant of the House of the Junior Bro-
thers, called Grey Friars of Innis, with
one church, one belfry, one grave-yard,
one mill, one salmon weir, one eel weir,
two messuages with stone walls, and
twelve cottages with land on Clonroad.
All the land about Ennis belonged to
the Earl of Thomond's manor of Clon-
road, and almost wholly leased to the
Gore family in perpetuity.
i* This is in the parish of Killimer, ba-
rony of Clonderlaw, and was therefore in
the territory of East Corca Bhaiscin,
the Lord of whom, 1585, who signed the
composition with Sir John Perrott, was
Teige Mac Mahon ; otherwise, "MacMa-
hon." In the return of the castles of
Clare supplied to Sir Richard Bing-
ham in 1586, the castle of Doneygrock
was possessed by Teige Mac Muircer-
tagh Cam (Mac Mahon). In 1620, the
Castle of Donogoroge was included in
the Earl of Thomond's Patent, and was,
in 1641, in possession of his tenant, Wil-
liam Brigdale.
During the Cromwellian period, Mr.
Walter Hickman was placed in this
castle, and after obtained from the Earl
of Thomond a lease of same for ninety
years, with the condition to supply a
Protestant horseman, with good horse,
186
In this seige [of Glyn Castle, see p. 188 infra}, July the 8 a
Cannon happened to be cloy'd, which by the President of Mouns-
ter Carews advice, was thus cleer'd, and which may serve for In-
strucion of all Souldiers upon the like occasion : he commanded
that the Peice as it was should be abased at the tayle and the
muzzle mounted as high as they could, the gunner to give her a
full charge of powder wth a shot after it then to give fire at ye
mouth thereof, by which the Touch hole was presently cleer'd.
[Here is drawn a Jacobean mural monument surmounting a
table or altar tomb, on the former the word THOMAS POWER, . . .
A. D. 1622.]
Remarkeable also at this seige that the President having the
Knight of the Valley's eldest son & heire of this Castle, a child of
6 years of age in his possession, to affrighten^the Castle guard he
caused the child to be sett upon one of the Tops of the Gabions,
sending them word that they should have a fair mark to bestow their
small shott upon. To which the Constable answer'd in unbecom-
ing terms thus: — The place is open where he was born, and the
K"* of the Valley may have more sonnes. But the President (in-
tending no such cruelty, as knowing that ye report of the Cannon
would have shaken the childs Limbs in peices) caused him to be
taken down, & then began the Battery. After which a breach was
made & it assaulted by Captain Flower; a sally was made by the
Castle Guard Rebells, the constable slayne, and his head mounted
on a stake 9. July, 1600. The castle was wonn, some of the rebells
were putt to the sword, and others leaped off the Battlements of
the Castle into the water underneath it.
This Castle upon the Shannon most of the time of the Rebellion
had in it one Anthony Arthur, one of the great merchants of that
name, as a Generall factor of the city to vent merchandize & como-
dities to the Rebells.
Five miles distant from this castle is the Castle of Carigfoile.
The comand of this Castle of Glyn for Queen Elizabeth was
given in charge Anno 1600, to Captain Nicholas Mordant.
SHANNON River, whose Source is in the North, and ends in the
South- West of Ireland, is famous for being navigable for near 200
miles from sea to sea, from James Town where it takes its rise
(were it not for one rock within 5 miles of Limerick), to Loophead
neer Malbay, a mad bay dangerous for Shipping ; here it is sd that
6 of the Spanish fleet in .88 were wreck't.
sword, case of pistols, and other ne- a roof, with slate or shingle, and also to
cessaries for a month ; to plant 100 ap- erect a house l£ stories 40 ft. by 18 ft.
pie trees, and to cover the castle with
187
This River is famous for the best Herrings, Salmon, Trouts of
44 Inches long, Lampreyes, Breem, &c.
In the marley mudd in this river are sometimes found, 14 or 15
foot deep, Elkes and Bufulo's Skeletons.
The chiefest Cities and Walled Towns on the Shannon are
Limerick, Athlone, a wall'd Town and considerable Pass. Fort
Falkland, built when my Lord Falkland was lord deputy, and thence
it took its name.
Upon this river is the
CASTLE of CORGRACJE which in the reigne of Q. Elizabth be-
longed to one Mr. Trenchard an Undertaker, a castle of great
strength, which being surrendred to her Maties use, the President
of Mounster gave the comand thereof to Mr. Oliver Stevenson.
H. Donogoroge Castle, belonging to Walter Hickman, Esq. T. Glin, Major Fitz-
Geralds, in the county of Limerick. K. County of Kerry. A.. Kilcerdane
Point. D. Knock-Ray, an hill so called. S. Burrawn Lands,15 belonging to
Capt". John Cocks.
From the Hill marked with the letter R, about 300 paces from
ye castle, is the loudest and plainest Eccho that I ever heard ; it
resounds rather louder than the voice or noyse you utter.
GLYN CASTLE, marked above with the letter T, is next to be
considered, and whose state as it was, when it was taken by Sr.
George Carew under Queen Elizabeth, 8 July 1600, I have sett
down from another draught on ye other side.
Js Barrane Lands, in the parish of Kil-
limer, barony of Clonderalaw, was, pre-
vious to 1641, the property of Sir Teige
M'Mahon, Bart., who succeeded in find-
ing favour with the Crown, and obtained
some of the ancient patrimony of the
M'Mahons of East Corca Bhaiskin.
Here Thomas Clancy was located under
the Cromwellian Settlement, but the
lands at the Restoration were granted to
James Nixon.
Benjamin Cox, Esq., of Mount Plea-
sant, Kilrush, J. P., is the present re-
presentative of Captain John Cocks,
above mentioned, though not the owner
of Barrane.
188
[Here is given a view of Glyn Castle from the « Pacata
Hibernia."]
GLYN-CASTLB in the county of Limerick now (viz. 1681) in the
hands of Major Fitz Gerald, is distant from Ballmtane 5 miles.
v'"';H;;'':^t
•*i;i^"- 1 i*
/|;':ft|''-f b*
/111 . / I /)» .\
<y
In Queen Elizabeth's dayes, viz., 5. July 1600, was beseiged.
Captain Gawen Harvy lay at Anchor before it 5. July 1600. Can-
•6 This was the chief seat of the
M'Mahons, Lords of West Corca Bhais-
cin, which composed the present ba-
rony of Moyarta, and part of Ibric-
kane. The composition of 1585 was
signed by Tyrrelagh M'Mahon of Moy-
arta, chief of his name in West Corca-
vaskin. When the rents under this
189
non were brought by water from Limerick by the Earl of Thomond
when they intrenched before ye castle between it and ye Shannon
River. The 6th of July 1600, a Demy Cannon and Sacre were
posted so as to do Execucon ag* the Castle, without ye loss of a
man on ye beseigers side, by reason of a Parley for that end (as a
blinde) enterteined.
The Constable of the Castle 7nth July, as a Thomond man
borne, and natural follower of ye Earle of Thomond, propos'd
something for ye Earles safety, which ye Earle mock't at, advizing
him to deliver up the Castle to ye Queen, which ye President of
Munster hearing sent him this last words, that since he had refused
that noble Earles offer, that he was in hope, before 2 dayes, to have
his head from his shoulders, which fell out.
Loopshead19 is a Promontory belonging to y6 Honble the Lord
Viscount Clare not farr off the mouth of the Shannon, [here is]
composition were sought to be collected,
Teige Caech M'Mahon, Lord of Carrig-
aholt, committed outrages upon the
crown collectors. As this not only
affected the crown's claim of 10s. a
quarter, but also the claim of 5s. from
each quarter, payable to the Earl of
Thomond, he sent his brother to remon-
strate, but Teige being then absent in
Kerry, the castle was occupied by his
wife and a beautiful daughter, to whom
the Earl's brother soon became attach-
ed. Teige having returned when O'Brien
was out hunting, ordered that he should
be seized on entering the courtyard,
which was on the sea-side. As soon as
O'Brien was aware of the attempt, he
leapt his horse over the wall into the
foaming sea, and although wounded,
reached the strand, which extends for a
mile to the east of the castle. The Earl
of Thomond, in revenge, possessed him-
self of some of M'Mahon's castles. In
1600, Teige Caech crossed the Shannon
and joined O'Donnell, who had marched
to the south to meet the Spaniards,
where he was soon after killed accident-
ally by his own son Turlogh, who fled
to Spain.
In 1601, July 8, Daniel O'Brien, bro-
ther of the Earl of Thomond, received
the Queen's letter for a grant of the
Castle of Carrigaholt, and such manors,
castles, &c., as Teige M'Mahon and his
son Turlogh were seised of in West
Corcavaskin, at the time of their enter-
ing into rebellion. This Sir Daniel
O'Brien was created Viscount Clare in
1662. The large estates which had
2c
been acquired by the Clare family were
forfeited by Daniel, third Viscount, in
1688, and the estates sold. Carrigaholt
passed to the Burtons, one of the co-pur-
chasers, and was the residence of Sir
Francis N. Burton, brother of the Mar-
quis of Conyngham, who repaired the
castle, and his grandson now enjoys it.
17 Querin is in the parish of Moyarta,
and in 1620 was included in the Earl of
Thomond's patent.
Isaack Vanhogarden was placed here
at the Cromwellian Settlement, but at
the Restoration, the Earl of Thomond
leased the lands to John Wright and
Humphrey Rogers for ninety-nine years,
with the condition that they should build
a stone house with chimneys, one and
a-half stories high, 40 ft. by 18 ft.,
floored with boards, and covered with
slate or shingles. The improvements
made by this tenant are stated to have
cost £600.
18 Hog Island lies between Scattery
Island and Kilrush, and formed part of
the manor of Kilrush.
Dinely has given no particulars
of Scattery Island, which has a long
history of its own. Its ruins are fully
described by Dr. O'Donovan, in a letter
dated 9th December, 1839, now depo-
sited in the Royal Irish Academy, with
the documents from the Ordnance Of-
fice.
19 Cuchullin's Leap, in the parish of
Kilballyowen, barony of Moyarta, Co.
Clare. In this remote parish there are
remains of several churches of great
antiquity.
190
a stone whereon if any one turnes round upon the heele,20 and
thinks on any other of cither sex for an husband or wife, are sayd
never to faile of their thought; on this several have wrote and
engraven their names, but none ever ventur'd to make the turne,
the stone being so dangerous an eminence over the water that 'tis
thought impossible.
KiLuusH21 is a Town in ye county of Clare, belonging to the
ri«'ht Honble. Henry Earle of Thomond, at this time, 1680, in the
tenure of Major Granniere ; opposite, with a league & half of river
between, to the Castle of Carigofoile in the county of Kerry, hither
28. July 1601, from Limerick marched the president of Mounster
Carew agst. the Rebells of Kerry with 1050 Foot of Qu. Eliz.
«° There is a stone in a field belong-
ing to Mr. Kieran Molloy ; a short dis-
tance S. W. of the churchyard of Clpn-
macnoise,on which, if a person leaving
the country, turns on his heel, with the
sun, he will, it is believed, be sure to
come back to his native place alive. This
stone is called " Clogh-an-umpy," i. e.
cloch-an-t-iompodh, "stone of the turn-
ing." This is a curious relic of our an-
cient sun-worship. Tempo in Ferma-
nagh is called in Irish an t-iompodh
deisiol, i. e. " turning from left to
right." Joyce's ' ' Irish Names of Places."
p. 28.-J. G.
21 The forfeiture of the property of
Teige Caech M'Mahon in 1601 pro-
moted further inquiry in this country.
On the 27th of October, 1604, an Inqui-
sition took place of a remarkable cha-
racter, for the jury found that Shinan
M-Girrygine, late Bishop of Iniskatra
(be it remembered that Scattery was
united to Killaloe previous to the Eng-
lish conquest, and if St. Seanan is the
bishop meant, he died in 544), granted
to the Church for pious uses sixteen
quarters of land, including Kilrush,
commonly called Termon Shannon, and
that they had been granted in lease by
the bishops of Killaloe, but were de-
clared forfeited to the King because
they were granted to the fraternity of
Canons against the Statutes of Mort-
main.
1605, March 9. These sixteen quar-
ters of Termon Shannon were granted
to John King, Clerk of the Hanaper,
Dublin; and in March, 1609, were re-
granted to Donat Earl of Thomond.
And again in 1620, were, with other
lands, formed into the Earl's manor of
Kilrush by a new patent.
In 1622, John Rider, bishop of Killa-
loe, made a claim for these lands to the
Royal Commissioners ; but having at
the'same time claimed almost every de-
nomination in the three baronies of Moy-
arta, Clonderalaw, and Ibrickane, no
notice appears to have been taken of it.
This appears a confirmation of the as-
sertion that amongst the native chief-
tains in old times the civil and ecclesias-
tical power were united in the same
person, those baronies having in ancient
times formed the kingdom of Corca
Bhaiskin, whose kings having been ex-
pelled by theM'Mahons, it became united
with Thomond.
By the Petty Census, Isaac Granger,
John Arthur, and Peter White, appear
as " Tituladoes" in the town, with five
English and eighty-four Irish inhabit-
ants.
The Earl of Thomond, after the
Restoration, granted a lease of Kilrush,
with four and a-half ploughlands, to
Isaack Granger, to expire in 1675; and
another in reversion in 1672 to Colonel
John Blount, which contained a covenant
to lay out the town of Kilrush, and settle
therein ten English families, or in want
of them, ten tradesmen, and to build no
houses but with brick or stone and lime,
to be slated. At General Hostings to
send two horsemen armed and found
for a month. If expelled from the pre-
mises by war, to pay no rent but what
he makes of the premises.
In 1656, Giles Vandeleur was tenant
to the Earl of Thomond for Ballynode,
in this barony, and his second son, the
Rev. John Vandeleur, was appointed
Rector of Kilrush in 1688.
souldiers & 75 horse, he being forc'd to take his way through ye
county of Clare, the mountain of Sleuglogher, by reason of the
rain, being impassable for carnages ; the honour of this despatch
is worthily attributed to the then Earle of Thornond, who provided
Boats.
BARONY of BuRREN,22 in the county of Clare, famous for Physi-
cal Herbs the best in Ireland, and equall to the best of England.
Here are Eringo Roots23 in great quantity. Oysters of middle syze,
salt, green finn'd, farr exceeding our Colchester, as own'd by several
Judges of both; this Barony affordeth not a piece of timber suffi-
cient to hang a man, water in any one place to drown a man, or
earth enough in any part to bury him. This consists of one entire
rock with here and there a little surface of Earth, which raiseth
earlier Beef and Mutton, though they allow no hay, than any land
in this Kingdome, & much sweeter by reason of the sweet herbs
intermixed and distributed every where. Earth or Mold is so
precious here, that it is reported Process has bin severall times
made for one neighbours removing earth in baskets from one
anothers land. Here Horses 4 abrest draw the Plough by the
Tayles,24 which was the custome all over Ireland, untill a Statute
23 The kingdom of Corcomroe consisted
of the present baronies of Corcomroe
and Burren, and were formed into an
independent diocese, that of Kilfenora,
at the synod of Rathbraissil, in 1111.
It became divided under two chiefs of
the O'Connors, one of whom assumed
the name of O'Loughlin; and their fa-
milies increased to such an extent, that
in 1641 there were fifty-three proprie-
tors of land in the barony of Burren of
the name of O'Loughlin, notwithstand-
ing several forfeitures and sales which
had taken place during the preceding
reign.
The O'Loughlins had joined in the
resistance to the Earl of Thomond's
English succession by primogeniture ;
but he obtained their submission by force
of arms in 1599, notwithstanding their
warlike nature and very thick skulls,
which was a type of the ancient race of
O'Loughlins.
Some of this "clan were admitted to
occupy under the Cromwellian Settle-
ment ; but the baronies of Burren and
Inchiquin were appointed for the trans-
planted Irish from Kerry, who, in a peti-
tion to the Council, Sep. 5, 1655, complain
that they had been assigned that part of
the county that was most infertile and
waste, and they were also removed from
the sea coast by the mile-line, which was
given to English settlers to prevent the
Irish from intercourse with any persons
coming by ships. At the Restoration,
Donough O'Loughlin, of Killonehan pa-
rish, received a grant of seventy acres,
the only one of that numerous family that
was admitted to favour.
Notwithstanding its infertile charac-
ter, large quantities of cattle, fed on the
winterages of Burren, without the aid of
artificial food or hay, are disposed of at
the Spring fair at Ballinasloe in such
good condition, that they are eagerly
bought up by those who possess richer
pastures.
The Pouldoody oysters still maintain
their celebrity.
23 i. e. Sea Holly.
21 1606. Act of Council was passed
restraining the barbarous custom of
drawing ploughs and carriages by
horses' tails, on pain of forfeiture for
the first year's offence, one garron
(horse) ; the second, two ; and for the
third the whole team.
1613, July 27. Grant made 11° James
1. to Sir William Uvedale of the fines of
10s., to be forfeited for every plough
drawn by horses' tails, for which he
was to pay a rent to the Crown of £100
Irish.
In 1613 a Commission was issued to
inquire into the state of Ireland, and
192
forbad it Yett they are tollerated this custome here because they
cannot mannage their land otherwise, their Plough Geers, tackle,
and traces being (as they are all over the rest of the Kmgdome) oi
Gadds or withs of twiggs twisted, which here would break to pieces
by the Plough Share so often jubbing against the Rock, which, the
BALLYKITT.
Geers being fastened by wattles or wispes to the Horses Tayles,
the horses being sensible stop untill the Plowman lifts it over.
Here people live to an extraordinary age, as observed by a Gentle-
man of this countrey, who hath an estate upon the place, that a man
among other things, as to disorderly
practices, which reported "that, not-
withstanding the order of 1G06, it was
not put in execution foralmost five years,
until, in 1611, Captain Paule Goare, de-
manding seven or eight score pounds of
his majesty for pay of certain soldiers
entertained by him and other services,
did desire the benefit of this penalty in
one or two counties, which the Lord
Deputy granted, limiting the charge to
10s. In 1612, the Lord Deputy ordered
the penalty to be levied in all Ulster,
which, amounting to £870, was em-
ployed for public uses. The profits
under the grant to Sir William Uvedale
within Ulster has produced £800, though
they were informed the charge on the
people was more.
" Although divers of the natives pre-
tend a necessity to continue the said
manner of ploughing, as more fit for
stony and mountainous ground, yet we
are of opinion it is not fit to be con-
tinued."
1620, May 18th. King's letter states
" that he had hoped the barbarous cus-
tom would have been reformed, but
that he had heard that the agents, acting
under his patent, more respecting their
own profit than our intention, have, by
way of contract, drawn down the 10s., to
2s. 6d., and 2s., and so, by lessening the
punishment, opened the way for the rude
and hateful custom to spread itself." A
Statute 10 & 11 Charles I., cap. 15, was
afterwards passed that none should
plough, harrow, or draw by horses'
tails.
It is curious that Article 28, in the
treaty of March 25, 1646, between the
Supreme Council of the Confederates
and Lord Ormond, it was provided that
the Acts prohibiting ploughing by horses'
tails, and burning oats in straw, should
be repealed, proving what a hold these
customs had taken, when such great
issues were at stake at that moment.
193
and his wife made above 204 yeers. The Rock is a sort of Lime-
stone. And their Garrens, horses so called, are seldome or never
shoo'd. It is not so seriously, as jestingly, reported that a Traveller
passing over this Barony his horses leg chanced to stick in an hole
between two rocks and to leave one of the shoos, which he alight-
ing and searching for it, drew up out of the same place above 30
shoos ; this is modestly thought the least number, for some under-
take to say 30 dozen. Here is but one narrow road, no going out
of it, and in this Barony the Particons of land are made by broad
stones like slate turn'd up edgewise.
The common people here use Brogues made of raw hides25 or
untann'd Leather.
Ballykitt26 was anciently a castle, but reduc'd to what it is by
Henry Hickman, Esqr. Here is yeerly kept a fair for black Cat-
tle on the Feast day of S4. John Baptist, called Ballykitt fair.
This is part of the Estate of the Right Honble. Henry Earle of
Thomond within a mile of Kilrush Town.
Note, that Irish Cattle at 4 yeers old here are held marketable
if fatt, wherefore not so fitt for long voyages as the English 8 yeer
old stall-fed Beefs.27
A Dayes sayle from hence are seen the
ISLES of ARRAN, the outer part of ye West of this Kingdome,
where 'tis sayd the Inhabitants complaine of living too long, and
are faine to come out thence to dye.
LISCAGHAN Castle, in Kerry, was taken in storme and scale
Anno 1600 by one Maurice Stack serv* to ye then President Carew
of Mounster, with but 50 men ; this castle is situate in the very
heart and middst of Kerry ; after this 16. July 1600, the rebells
beseiged this castle, Stack in it, and placed an Irish Engine against
it, called a sow, to its walls, to sapp the same as they terme it. But
Stack & his men made a sally, and so well behaved themselves that
they tore the sow in pieces and made her cast her piggs, slaying
27 of them on the place. After Stack, Mr. Walter Talbot had the
comand of Liscaghan as constable which ye Rebell Florence28
thought to have brib'd, but in vain.
GLANCOYN Castle in Connilogh, whose ruines are seen at this
day, was surpriz'd Octobr 1st 1600 by Sr Francis Berkley; after
25 From a rare book entitled " Beware a lease of Ballyket from Lord Clare,
the Cat;" it appears that these brogues Nov. 13, 1666, for three lives. It did not
were fitted to the foot by a piece of the belong to the Earl of Thomond, as stated
hide being laced on when fresh from the by Dineley.
beast. — J. G. 27 It is curious to find early maturity,
26 This was one of the manors of Vis now held to be a result of high English
count Clare, in the barony of Moyarta; breeding, here set forth as a peculiarity
and Colonel Daniel O'Brien, afterwards of the " Irish cattle" of Clare, one of
third Viscount, resided here during his the aboriginal breeds of Ireland.— J. G.
father's life. Henry Hickman obtained S8 i. e. Florence Mac Carthy.
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which, in Kerry, Castlemang in ye hands of Thomas Oge, and Lis-
toel castle defended by Fitz Maurice, were both regain'd, wherein,
as in other exployts agl the Irish Rebells, Captain Flower of Lis-
more was very eminent.
DINGLK CASTLE, belonging to a famous haven & J own of that
name in the County of Kerry, & then belonging to Wm Fitz Gerald
the Knight of Kerry, in Novembr 1600 was by him surrendered to
Sr Charles VVilmot, and he received into favour by the President
of Mounster, for Qu. Elizabeth, Sr George Carew. Dingle Town
belongs now, 1681, to Sr Wra Brewster ; it goes by the name of
Dingle Icouch.
Castle ny Parke, invested by the Spanyards when they took
Kinsale, was rendered by them to Queen Elizabth 20 Novr 1601
upon promise of their Lives onely.
Here very observable was a brave act of a private souldier, for
whilst the Lord Deputy Mountjoy and the serjeant major were
viewing the grounds, a musqueteer belonging to Sr Francis Berk-
leys Company, in the face of the guards, attempting to steal (as he
had done divers times before) a Spanish Sentinel, who was seconded
with 4 that he saw not, fought them all five, whereof one of them
was a sergeant major, whom he had almost taken prisoner, & when
he had found he could do noe good upon them all, he came off
without other hurt than ye cutting of his hand a little with the
breaking of a thrust, Novr 23. 1601.
This Castle nyPark was erected by the Queen, Anno 1601, by
her Ingineer Paul Ives, for the defence of Kinsale Harbour ; who
also contrived Halabolin Fort.
[Here is given a view of Castle ny Park, or Park Castle, from
the " Pacata Hibernia."]
HALBOLIN, the remains whereof are yett to be seen, was scituate
in an Island of the same name in the river of Cork six miles and a
half from that capital city ; this fort was erected by Paul Ives, an
ingineer, to comand the river and shipping directed so to do by Sr.
George Carew, Lord President of Munster, January 15. 1601, for
the Queene ; at the same time was also erected Castle ny Parke to
defend the Haven of Kinsale.
[Here is given a view of Halbolin Fort, from the " Pacata Hi-
bernia."]
Lough-Gurr, a fair Castle in the Tenure of John Baily, Esqr.
It belonged to the Countesse Dowager of Bathe, who built the
sayd new Church for the use of the protestants, and bestow'd a
Rich Pulpitt Cloth, Silver Chalice, Plate, Bible, & service book.
It now belongs to Sr Henry Vane or Fane, part of his Estate.
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The sayd Countesse was Dowager of Henry Bourchier Earle
of Bathe.
This Castle during the Time of the Irish .Rebellion was alwayes
a Garrison for one side or other; beside, being in an Island of above
H
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o
03
o
w
g
a mile in circumference encompass'd with a large and deep Lough
or Poole, it was a receptacle not onely for man but beast to de-
fend from the enemy.
Lough Gurr is seven miles from Limerick.
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The Lough or large mote which encompasseth this Island and
Castle aboundeth in Fishes, Pike, Eeles, but Roches in vast quan-
tity. Mr. Henry Bayly, son to the sd Jn° Bayly, told me of a
prodigious Pike there lately taken of 4 foot & half in length, with
one in its Belly of above two foot long.
In the Castle are seen these Armes : —
[Here is drawn a shield with the arms blazoned in the text.]
Thus blazon'd, he beareth Argent a Cross engrailed Gules, be-
tween four Water bowgetts sable. This was the coat Armor of
John Bourchier Lord Fitz-warin of Tawstock in Devonshire (son
of Foulke Bourchier Lord Fitz Warin, and of his wife Elizabeth,
second sister and Coheire of John Lord Dinham, Lord Hi^h Trer
of England under Henry VII., which Foulk was son of Richard
Bourchier, Lord Fitz Warin, in right of his wife Thomasin, daugh-
ter and heire of Sr Richard Hankford and of his wife Elizabeth,
daughter and heire of Foulke Fitz Warin, last Lord Fitz warm, of
that Family, which William Bourchier was younger son of William
Bourchier Earle of Ewe in Normandy, and younger brother to
Henry Bourchier first Earle of Essex) was the 9. of June 1536
created Earle of Bath, by Henry 8, in the 28. yeer of his reign; he
died the 27. Ap. 1539, and 31 of Henry VIII., who marryed, &c.
From hence is descended that truly noble Knt. Sr Henry Bouchier,
or of this Family, & a carefull and diligent searcher out of Anti-
quities of the Kingdome of England as well as of this, whose armes
I think these are, for that ye Earles of Bath have this addition of
charge, viz. a label of 3 points azure charged with 9 Flower de
luces Or.
BALLINGARDE CASTLE.
BALLiNKGARDE.-Kemarkeable here is, that one M". Bourke,
to be contracted to a person for whom she had no fancy, the night
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before the intended solemnity she leap'd out of the window of this
castle, marked (a), of about 16 yards high without hurt & ran away.
And afterwards marryed to the same man she so avoyded, and
lived happily with him.
Ballinegarde Castle is 4 miles distant from the City of Limerick,
in the hands of John Croker, Esqr., one of his Matiei Justices of the
Peace for the County of Limerick, one of the greatest Corne Mer-
chants in the sayd County.
This Castle and Estate is the jointure of the widdow to Coll1
Randolph Clayton.
A mile and half from hence are seen the Ruines of
Schuille Castle, sd to be built by King John, the lands whereof
belong to Sr George Ingoldsby. Herein lived in the yeer 1673, or
near it, in a certain Cabbin, being serjeant, viz., a bayliffe, to the
sayd Mr. Croker, one David Brown, who voyded a flattish Worme
of above twenty and four foot long.
Six miles from Limerick, and seven miles from Ballinegard is
the Town of
AD ARE. — In which were anciently seen Abbeys whose Ruines
are worth visiting ; here was a mannour house belonging to the
Earles of Kildare totally ruined by Pierce Lacy Anno. 1600. The
Town of Ardare was burnt by Maurice Stack ; halfe a mile from
hence are the ruines of Liscaghan Castle.
RATHMORE castle was in the hands of rebells in Queen Eliza-
beths time Anno. 1600: it is 3 miles out of Limerick road, it was
surrendered to the Queen 15. July & ye ward delivered to Carew
presid* of Mounster ; it is 3 miles out of way between Limerick &
Kilmallock.
From Limerick by Abby Owhny to Carigkenlish is 6 miles.
On ye left hand going to the Altar is seen this upon Sr George
Ingoldesby's wive's mother.
2D
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[Here is given a drawing of a Table monument with the fol-
lowing words in Roman Capitals.]
RI8 NI. ANNABEL GOULD TH
DIED XXVII MAY. MDCLXXII.
On the right hand, going up to the Altar place of ye Chancel
of Carigkenlish is seen this monument against the wall.
In Roman Capitals.
HTJNC TUMULUM THEOBALDUS BOURK 8IBI
ET UXORI SUI SLANIE BRIEN FIERI FECIT
BURKHIARUM 80BOLES CAROLING
SANGINE TINCTE ATQUE BRIANOR
UM NOBILITATA TRIBU
HIC THEOBALDE JACKS TECUM.
[Here is drawn a Jacobean mural monument with three niches,
above an altar tomb. Over the right-hand niche are the words
SANCTA MARIA, in the centre a Crucifixion, with the letters INRI,
over the left-hand niche is ST. JOHANNES ; on it Dineley has placed
a portion of the above inscription, writing it at full in margin.]
On an altar Tomb, in Roman Capitals.
HERE LIETH THE BODY OF APHRA MANSEL MY
DEAR MOTHER DAUGHTER OF S* WILLM CRAYFOJRD K*
THERE ALSO LIETH MY DEAR WIFE MARY MANSEL
DAUGHTER OF GEORGE BOOTH OF CHESHIRE ESQUIRE
AND OF MY SISTER APHRA PEACOCK AND OF HER DAUGHTER
ANNE PEACOCK ERECTED BY ME JOHN MANSELL ESQUIRE
AND ENTENDED FOR MYSELF AND THE REST OF
MY FAMILY THIS XII OCTOBER. MDCLXII.
From Carickenlish to Craigowhny, Cragg Owhny, in the County
Palatine of Tiperary is 6 miles.
Cragg Owhny anglice Rock Owhny (the Principal seat belong-
ing anciently to the Riians whose monuments and Inscripcon I
have touched off in Abby Owhny) now in the hands of Richard
Lee, Esq.
From Cragg Ownhy to Knockannaneen a small mile. The
Etimology of Knockannaneen is, the Hill of the white bird ; this
Estate and Castle belongs to [blank'] Sheldon, Eeqr.
From Knockannaneene to Obrien's Bridge29 Town is a mile
and half
'» The O'Briens, who, after the banish- wars with the Earls of Desmond, with
mcnt of the English out of Clare in respect to the territories, which lay in
1318, had succeeded as Princes of the south side of the Shannon, and in
Thomond, were involved in frequent 1466, Teige O'Brien not only succeeded
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Two miles from hence is the Bishoprick and ancient city of
Killaloo.30 This Bridge parteth ye County of Tipperary and Clare.
KNOCKANNANKEN.
in obtaining the territory of Clan wil- Co. Limerick, and a subsidy of sixty
liam, but also a chief rent out of the marks a year for the city of Limerick.
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Within a mile and three quarters of O'brien's Bridge is seen
the Ruines of a very ancient Building called CASTLE CONNELL
built by King John.
KNOCKANNANEEN.
A fair View of it is seen on yr left hand returning for Limerick
from O'Brien's Town, from whence to
T. The House of the Earle of inchiquin.al
O'BRIEN'S BRIDGE.
PARTEENE is 5 miles : this is a small Town adjoining to the fa-
mous Salmon Wire belonging to the City of Limerick.
from the bishops of Killaloe and Kilfe-
nora, built a bridge across the river
Shannon, at Portcrusha, in 1507. The
Earl of Kildare, Lord Justice of Ireland,
partly destroyed this bridge in 1510.
In 1534 Connor O'Brien, Prince of Tho-
mond, having given his adhesion to Lord
Thomas Fitzgerald, the "Silken Earl,"
After the defeat of M'William of
Clanrickard, and Prince Turlogh Donn
O'Brien, who had gone to his aid, at
the battle of Knocktow, in 1504, the
city of Limerick could no longer be
depended upon as a passage from one
part of Thomond to the other : so
O'Brien, having obtained assistance
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Upon Parteen bridge is read this Inscripcon beginning a fair
Causeway over a bogg leading to Limerick
HTTNC PONTEM AC VIAM STEATAM FIERI FECIT
PETRUS CREAGH
FILIVS ANDREW
MAJOR CIVITATIS LIMERICENSIS. STJMPTIETJS
EJTJSDEM CIVITATIS
ANNO DOMINI MDCXXXV.
On the right hand of this Bridge is a Great Decoy for Ducks,
belonging to James Fitz Gerald of the middle Temple, Esqr.
In the midway of this Causeway are also other Inscripcons of
Majors of Limerick as One [blank] Arthur, Wilson, \_blank~]
Samuel Foxon, Esqrs.
Lord Leonard Grey's attention was di-
rected to this bridge, "by which, in a
manner, all the English thereto adjoin-
ing had been subdued, especially the
County of Limerick, and that unless
the bridge be in haste laid prostrate,
the O'Briens may be expected to en-
croach still further upon the territory
of the English." It was not until 1536
that Lord Leonard Grey succeeded in
destroying the bridge, having " brought
a Portugal piece, and certain harque-
busses and hand guns, with a great
piece of iron, that shot balls, as great
in manner as a man's head, with which
the garrison were driven out of their
defences, and the bridge, which was
fifteen score paces long, was broken
down with bills, swords, and daggers,
with great labour for lack of pickaxes
and crows."
After the death of Connor O'Brien,
his brother Murrough, who succeeded
as Prince, no longer able to resist the
increased power of the English, not only
surrendered his principality, but agreed
to relinquish all claim as chieftain be-
yond the Shannon.
30 Under the ancient Irish rule, the ec-
clesiastical divisions were conterminous
with the territories of the principal
chieftains, and Tuam Greine, or Tom-
graney, appears to have been chief
church of the Dalcassian tribe of Ui
Bloid, who were settled on the north side
of the Shannon. When Brian Borumha
selected Kincora, in the present town of
Killaloe, as his chief residence, in prefe-
rence to Cashel, which his family were
only entitled to occupy in alternate suc-
cession with the Eugenian race, the
church of Killaloe sprung into impor-
tance. On the south side of the Shannon
lay another territory of the Ive Bloid,
whose chief church was Tir de Glas, or
Terry Glass.
When the Papal Legate, Gillebert,
bishop of Limerick, at the Synod of
Rathbrassil, in 1111, consolidated the
minor bishoprics into regular dioceses,
Killaloe was selected for the centre of the
diocese; and in 1195 the diocese ofRos-
crea was added ; and about the same
time Inis-cattery, or Scattery, which in-
cluded the baronies of Moyarta, Clonde-
ralaw, and Ibrickan, which had been
the kingdom of Corca Bhaiscin, was
likewise united with Killaloe.
From the time of Brian Borumha,
there is a tolerably regular account of
the successors to the See of Killaloe,
some of whom are styled bishops of
Thomond.
The death of the last bishop of Tir
de Glas is recorded in 1 152 ; and the last
bishop of Inis-cattery recorded died in
1188. Charles O'Heney, bishop of Kil-
laloe, who died in 1 193, being also bishop
of Inis-cattery.
In 1217, King John appointed Robert
Travers,an Englishman, to the See, and
Geoffry de Mariscis, the Lord Justice,
erected a castle at Killaloe for his pro-
tection ; but he was deprived by the
Papal Legate in 1221 ; and from that
time until 1612 the See was occupied by
bishops of Irish blood, notwithstanding
all the laws which had been passed
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CARRIGFOYLK CASTLE, five miles distant from the Glinnstood
out against Queen Elizabeth Anno 1600, as it also did before,
Anno 1580, and was won by Sr William Pelham, then Lord Justice
of this Kingdom, under whom at that time there serv'd, as a Captn
of Foot, George Carew, afterwards Sr George Carew Lord Presi-
dent of Mounster, then George Lord Carew Earle of Totness,
General of the Ordinance, & of her Matie8 most honble Privy
Counsell.
This Castle was surrendered by O'Conner Kerry, and by the
afore menconed president Anno 1600 put into the hand of Sr.
Charles Wilmot. At which time the Earle of Thomond, out of his
affeccon for her Maties service gave unto John O'Conner during the
warrs another Castle and thirteen Ploughlands, for himself and
Tenants to live upon in the County of Clare, nevertheles upon ye
landing of the Spanyards, this perfidious traytor relapsed.
When the Lord President had sate down before the Castle and
had invested it, viz. 2. Aug. 1600, Patrick Lord Fitz Maurice, a
stubborn Rebell then living, when he saw his chief seat, the Castle
of LIXNAW and that of RATHOWINE belonging to the Bpp of Kerry
and TRALEE taken by surprize by Sr Charles Wilmot, he himself
broke and defaced his castle of
BEAU-LIEU seated upon the river Shannon and two miles distant
from the following Castle of Carrigfoyle.
The Condicon of Carrigfoyle Castle Anno. 1580, when it was
taken by Sr. Wra. Pelham, Knt. Lord Justice of Ireland, on Palm
Sunday, and the manner how ye cannon were planted for its battery
taken from a draught.
[Here is given a view of Carrigfoyle Castle from the " Pacata
Hibernia."]
against ecclesiastics of the Irish nation. Perrott in 1583, a compromise was ef-
3' From the circumstance of the Earls fected ; for while the Earls of Thomond
of Inchiquin having been created Mar- obtained 5s. a quarter in lieu of chief-
quesses of Thomond, after the extinc- tain's right from eight baronies, Lord
tion of the Thomond branch, very few Inchiquin was given 5s. a quarter for
understand the distinction of the two every quarter in the barony of Inchiquin,
lines. Murrough O'Brien, who surren- the castle of Inchiquin being then the
dered to Henry VIII., was created Earl residence of the lords,
of Thomond only for life, the hereditary Murrough, the first lord, possessed the
title being that of Inchiquin. His ne- castle and manor of O'Brien's Bridge,
phew Donough, son of his elder brother, with nine quarters of land,
was at the same time created Baron of The sixth baron, created Earl of Inch-
Ibrackane, with remainder to the Earl- iquin, obtained Rostellan, in the county
dom of Thomond ; and thus the heirs of of Cork, which became the chief seat of
Murrough were Inchiquins, while the that family. He died in 1673. The
heirs of Donough were Thomonds; and second Earl went as Governor to Ja-
between these two families there was a maica, where he died in 1691 ; and the
feud of long duration, arising originally third Earl resided at Rostellan. This
as an offshoot of the wars between the third Earl leased away all the manor
Butlers and Fitzgeralds, Donough hav- of O'Brien's Bridge to different persons,
ing married a Butler, and Murrough a and the reserved rents were afterwards
Fitzgerald. sold.
At the composition with Sir John
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CASTLE OF LIMERICK.
[Here is given a view of the Castle of Limerick, from the
" Pacata Hibernia."]
The Irish C'ch Historians speak Richard de Clare, Marshall,
called Comes Strangulensis, the first and chief invader and conqueror
of this Kingdome to be buried here, in the Quire of the ancient
Preaching Friers.
It is not impossible that being so remarkeable a man as he was,
here may have been set up some Honorary Remembrance, Reli-
gionis causa, as the custome was of such whose bodies were missing,
as lost by shipwrack, slayn, cut, mangled, and hewn in pieces in
battaile, or of such who died in forraigne parts in battaile also, or
otherwise whose Interment was unknown. In ancient times it being
the opinion that the Spirit of the dead could by no means rest
untill the body had decent buriall, so that he may have had this
sort of Cenotaph, where is also sd to be buried his brother William.
[Extracts from Virgil and Homer omitted here.]
postscript.
SINCE the Introduction to Dineley's Tour in Ireland was written
in 1856, Mr. John Gough Nichols has edited for the Camden So-
ciety our author's " History from Marble, being ancient and mo-
dern Funeral Monuments in England and Wales, by T. D., Gent."
In the admirable introduction which he has prefixed to that work,
Mr. Nichols has, I think, conclusiuely shown that I was in error
in supposing that Thomas Diueley [or Dingley, as he appears
generally to have written his name] was identical with Thomas
Dineley, of Whithall Chapel, in the parish of Bromsgrove, or was
in any way connected with the Worcestershire family, as Nash, in
his history of that county, considered to be the fact. It is clear
that he was of the Dingleys of Southampton, who bore, however,
the same armes (argent, a fess sable, and in chief a mullet between
two pellets of the last), as the Dineleys, or Dingleys of Charlton, in
Worcestershire, and were probably originally of the same stock.
It has now been ascertained from the Admission Book of Gray's
Inn, to which we have the authority of our industrious author
himself, that he belonged [see the dedicatory inscription appended
to the view of Newport House, at p. 207 of the History from
Marble], that he was admitted on the 6th of August, 1670, being
the son and heir of Thomas Dingley, of Southampton, in the county
of Southampton, Esq. His grandmother was Dorothy, daughter,
and one of the coheirs of John Hopton, of Hopton-in-le-Hole,
in Shropshire, Esq., whose sister, as appears by the Hampshire
^04
Visitations made in 1622, and 1624, was the wife of Sir Richard
Hopton of Cherbery, in the same county, Knt., whom our author
mentions in his account of Sir Thomas Coningsby's Hospital at
Hereford, as " his honoured great uncle."
Of the Irish journey, Mr. Nichols has remarked; "^ though
Dingley nowhere distinctly intimates the circumstances which con-
ducted him to Ireland, yet it is evident that his greatest^ friends in
that country were among the dependants of the Earl of Thomond.
In his subsequent book upon Wales, he takes occasion, on the
mere incidental mention of Brien, one of the old kings of Ireland,
to remark, that " Of the name of Brien or O'Brien, and family,
are descended the most noble Irish Earls of Thomond," and then
introduces a view of Bunratty Castle (a drawing, in fact, removed
from p. 171, of his Irish Journal), and a description of the monu-
ment of Donagh, Earl of Thomond, in Saint Mary's Church, at
Limerick, which, having been defaced in the rebellion, was restored
in the year 1678, by his grandson, Earl Henry. Such a digression
is, at first view, most extraordinary, but its motives will be under-
stood when considered with regard to the connexion that existed
between the Thomond family and that of his new patron, the Duke
of Beaufort, for whose acceptance the Welsh volume was intended.
This volume was printed by the liberality of the present Duke
of Beaufort, in the year 1864, under the editorial care of Charles
Baker, Esq., F. S. A., the author's drawings being beautifully en-
graved on wood. The number of copies was strictly limited to one
hundred.
Mr. Nichols has also been successful in discovering in Doctors'
Commons the record of administration to the property of Thomas
Dingley, dated the 14th of May, 1695, by which I am enabled to
correct an error into which I was led by a statement of the His-
torian Nash ; it appears that he died when engaged in foreign
travels, at Louvaine in Flanders, and that he had lived a bachelor,
and was the last of his family, his heir being a niece, the daughter
of his sister Eliza, the wife of William Melling.
Ev. PH. SHIRLEY.
Lower Eatington Park,
May 20, 1869-
PROCEEDINGS AND PAPERS,
QUARTERLY GENERAL MEETING, held at the Society's Apartments,
William-street, Kilkenny, on Wednesday, October 9th, 1867-
The Rev. C. A. VIGNOLES, in the Chair.
The following new members were elected: —
Major-General John St. George, C. B., R. A., Director-General
of Ordnance, 17, Rutland-gate, London, S.W. ; proposed by Major
St. George.
Rev. J. Gray Porter, Sackville-street Club, Dublin : proposed
by the Rev. J. Graves.
James Dolan, Esq., Gaulstown, Dunleer : proposed by Sir J.
Robinson, Bart.
George Oliver Webb, Esq., J.P., Webbsborough, Castleco-
mer: proposed by Mr. Prim.
C. O'Keeffe Lanigan, Esq., Barrister-at-law: proposed by
W. L. Hackett, Esq.
Robert J. Robertson, Esq., Barrister-at-law, Kildare-street,
Dublin : proposed by C. H. Foot, Esq.
The following presentations were received, and thanks voted
to the donors :
By the Rev. R. Deverell, on the part of Mr. Frederick Grome,
6, Charleville-road, Rathmines : two encaustic flooring tiles, from
the Abbey of Great Connell, Co. Kildare.
By Mr. J. Mervyn Byrne, Webbsborough : an ancient iron
key, of uncommon form, and part of a metal buckle of curious
workmanship, the former turned up within a few yards of the site
of the old Castle of Ballinrinka — the ancient name of Webbs-
borough ; and the latter found in a field in the townland of Crossy-
Brennan (orBrennan's Cross), on the spot where, according to local
tradition, the sept of the Brennans, in olden times, fought a bloody
battle, but whether against the Sassenach or among themselves did
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not seem to be remembered. Also a silver sixpence of Charles II,
accidentally received by him in change.
By Barry Hyde, Esq., Head Manager of the National Bank,
Liverpool : some specimens of modern " ring money, to illustrate,
by comparison, some of the ancient objects of that class m the
Society's Museum. Those now presented, Mr. Hyde observed, were
worn as ornaments, as well as used to represent money, at Bonny, West
coast of Africa ; whilst at Lagos cowries were used for the same pur-
pose The composition was a mixture of brass and copper, and they
were much of one size and weight, and differed only slightly in shape.
By Thomas R. Lane, Esq., St. Finbar's, Cork : several very
interesting photographic views, taken by himself in Kilkenny,
during the last summer. They included views of St. Canice's
Cathedral, the Castle, St. John's Bridge, the Tholsel, Shee's old
house, High-street, a group of the sculptured stones of Romanesque
character,°belonging to the more ancient church of St. Canice of
Kilkenny, destroyed in the building of the present Cathedral, which
had been discovered, during the late restorations, used promiscuously
as ordinary building materials in the present structure.
By the Rev. N. R. Brunskill : a groat of Queen Elizabeth,
found nearBurnchurch.
By Mr. John S. O'Brien, Mullinahone : a copper farthing of
Queen Anne (date 171 1 )— one of those coins vulgarly and falsely
supposed to be of such immense value, but, nevertheless, tolerably
rare.
By Mr. Bettesworth Lawless : the Irish sixpence of James I.,
which he had exhibited at the last meeting of the Society.
By Mr. Prim: a specimen of the curious metal castings found so
frequently in Kilkenny city and county, and concerning the origin
or use of which, although obviously of rather modern workmanship,
nothing had yet been discovered. The present specimen repre-
sented a Highlander, in full costume, and thus differed in design
from any of those previously placed in the Museum. Mr. Prim
said he bought it from a local dealer, who stated that he had
obtained it from a countrywoman, who told him that it had been
turned up by the plough near the city.
By Mr. T. W. Kershaw, Kilmoganny: a number of silver
and copper coins — amongst the former a penny of Edward I.
struck at Canterbury, a sixpence of Elizabeth, and a groat of
Charles II.; amongst the latter were several eighteenth century
Tradesmen's Tokens.
The Rev. J. Graves, Hon. Sec., laid before the meeting a letter
received from the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the
National Exhibition of Works of Art to be held at Leeds next
year, asking that a loan might be given them, on an undertaking
for safe return, of any objects in the Museum of the Kilkenny
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Archaeological Society, suitable to complete the collection which
they intend to form temporarily next year at Leeds, of objects in
the Celtic, Anglo-Saxon, Romanesque, Mediaeval, and Renaissance
styles, so as to afford the public an impressive idea of the state of
art during each of those epochs. If their request was granted, Mr.
Chaffers, the superintendent of that department, would be happy to
visit and select for the purpose.
On the motion of Major St. George, it was resolved that Mr.
Chaffers should have access to the Museum for the purpose pro-
posed.
Mr. Graves said that, no doubt, the members were aware, from the
notices of the matter in the newspapers, that the north-east turret of
the belfry tower of Jerpoint Abbey had been struck by lightning dur-
ing the thunder storm of the 13th of last August. Theinjury done was
not at all so serious as might havebeen expected from such a visitation,
but the pinnacles and portion of the parapet of that turret had been
thrown down. He had met Mr. Blake — the nearest resident mem-
ber of their Committee, and from whom he had the first intimation
of what had occurred — at the Abbey a couple of days after ; and
upon a careful inspection of the injury done, they resolved that it
was necessary to take proper precautions against the wall being
sapped by the weather beating on the ruined part, but that it
would be useless to attempt to rebuild the parapet which had been
injured, as it should be a bit of new building which would not har-
monise with the whole. Mr. Blake having kindly undertaken to
superintend the work, he (Mr. Graves), had taken upon himself to
guarantee the repayment to him by the Society of the sum neces-
sary to be expended for the purpose. He had since received the
following very satisfactory announcement from that gentleman : —
3 1st August, 1867.
" REV. AND DEAR SIR, — I have had everything done for the preserva-
tion of the turret, which was lately struck by lightning, at Jerpoint
Abbey. All the cracks and breaches made by the shock are completely
stopped with finely tempered mortar. I was particular in going to the
Abbey and superintending the work, to ensure that it would he properly
done, and with safety to the persons I had employed. I assure you I felt
great ease of mind when I had the work done, and got my men safe again
on honest mother earth, for the footway on the walls is very slippery,
from the slimy moss growing on the flags. The expense of this small
affair has been so trifling that you must not think it a generous act for
me to make no charge to the Archaeological Society.
" Believe me to remain,
"Very faithfully yours,
" JAMES S. BLAKE."
He (Mr. Graves), felt assured that the members present would
express their gratitude to Mr. Blake for his zeal and liberality in
the matter.
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On the motion of Mr. Bracken, C. I., it was unanimously
resolved that a vote of thanks should be given to Mr. Blake for his
zeal and liberal services towards the repair of the abbey.
Mr. Kobertson exhibited a very interesting and curious ancient
bronze medal, having on one side the bust of a figure, in very high
relief, and on the reverse an inscription in characters which were
quite strange to all who examined it. Mr. Robertson said it had
been found by the Kev. E. Walsh, P. P., Mooncoin, in digging the
foundations for a new church there, and had been entrusted to him
by the Rev. gentleman, in order to his discovering, if possible, to
what age and country it belonged. He had communicated with
Mr. Lindsay, of Cork, the well-known numismatist, but his answer
was: —
" The coin or medal is a very singular one, but I am sorry to say I
am unable to give you much information relative to it, not being
acquainted with the characters on the reverse, which bear considerable
resemblence to the Cufic ; but the obverse, which bears a head, would
alone be sufficient to show that we must look for an interpretation to
some other alphabet."
Mr. Sainthill, of Cork, no mean authority in numismatic
matters, had been also applied to, whose reply was : —
"As far as I may venture to express an opinion on it, not having
seen or read of anything resembling it, I think it is a medal, cast, not
struck, in a steel die, and represents, most probably, some Oriental per-
sonage, civil or clerical, with an inscription in the language of the country
in which it was fabricated, we may presume giving the name of the person
whose bust is on the other side. I have not seen the characters on any
Oriental coinage. . . . The medal is Christian, the Khoran forbidding
portraits, and that on the reverse seems clerical."
Mr. Sainthill had further suggested that the medal ought to be
sent for identification, if possible, to the Medal-room at the British
Museum, or to the College of the Propaganda at Rome ; but Mr.
Robertson said he had no authority to retain it longer than for
exhibition at this meeting of the Society. Some Hebrew scholars
had informed him that a couple of the 'characters in the inscription
resembled Hebrew letters.
Mr. Graves suggested that there was an appearance of some-
thing resembling the cornu ammonis on the head of the figure, in
which case it should belong to pagan art; but the appearance to
which he alluded might be referrible to the arrangement of the
hair, and the head had very much the appearance of that of a Chris-
tian ecclesiastic.
Mr. Robertson also exhibited a bronze pin from his own collec-
tion, with a curiously ornamented head, which seemed to be unique.
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The Rev. Newport B. White, Glasson, Athlone, communi-
cated the fact that, about two years since, a young man in his
neighbourhood, fishing in the Auburn lake, near the ruins of the
Abbey of Kilkenny-West, found an ancient bell, made of a single
sheet of iron, riveted at the sides, and covered with bronze, into
which it had been dipped. It was of the square shape : 2 feet 3
inches round the mouth, 5 inches at the top, and 10 inches in
height. When found, the tongue was gone, but the place for it,
and the handle, were perfect ; both, however, were since broken
off by the finder, to make it more handy for holding bait ! How-
ever, since using it thus, the finder was disposed to value it more,
as he had arrived at the conclusion that it was the bell belonging
to the old abbey, for which, he says, there has been a search for
the last two centuries. The bronze coating had nearly all fallen
off, but some patches remained still attached to the bell.
Mr. Samuel Shaw, of Andover, England, communicated the
circumstances of a fine gold penannular ring, similar to those fre-
quently found in Ireland, having been turned up near Andover not
long since. It weighed 203 grains, and was now in his posses-
sion.
Mr. Lecky, Ballykealy, county of Carlow, wrote to the Rev.
Mr. Graves, referring to the account of the discoveries made in
1853 of a number of fine fictile urns in the course of the explora-
tion of Pagan cists at Ballon Hill, on his property — a full account
of which was given by Mr. Graves in the Society's " Transactions'* at
the time, with numerous illustrations. Mr. Lecky now mentioned
that, since his return from the South of Europe in July last, he
had some fresh excavations made in the Ballon cemetery, and he had
found several cists, and some even of a smaller size than those found
in 1853, but in all were discovered only the remains of burned bones,
deposited without any vessel to contain them. He suggested that
these were probably the cists or burial places of poorer persons
than those for whom the urns had been placed. He supplied
details of the construction of the cists as follows : —
11 Though rude, these cists' were carefully and perfectly closed, and
well secured with a cover-stone; they were irregular in form, approach-
ing to a round or oval, as the form and shape of the stones suited. There
is not any instance of a tool having been used on any of the stones em-
ployed. These cists are 18 inches, or 2 feet, or so, in diameter. In
these diggings I found two or three sunken pits, where they had burnt
the bodies. There was a quantity of charcoal about the place, and marks
of fire on the stones still visible. On one or two of the cover-stones of
the cists the traces of fire were strongly marked on one side. They
probably had been made use of at the fire where the bodies were burnt,
and afterwards used for cover-stones of the cists.
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«• These possibly, as already observed, may have been the cists of
poorer individuals— being ruder in their formation and smaller than
those on other parts of the Hill, and the remains of the burnt bones being
deposited in the cists without urns— possibly, to avoid expense and
trouble. If this be so, the burning the body (which was itself a
troublesome process) was probably either a religious rite or an invariable
" Two of these cists I have had removed from the Hill to the grounds
near the house here, and fixed in the same position in which they were
on the Hill. I had every stone of each accurately numbered and marked,
so that they are now exactly in the position and form in which they
originally were placed— the sides, cover-stones, directions as to the
points of the compass, and all ; and I have had the bones and charcoal
found in each carefully re-deposited in them. One very long one
on the Hill (in which was found two urns) I have had restored exactly
as it was, and in the same spot. So that antiquarians now— or in
future years— can see three examples of the cists precisely as they
were in every respect. In the library there are preserved the urns,
with the bones and the charcoal (made by the wood that burnt the
bodies), as fresh looking as if made yesterday; the fractures show-
ing sharp angles, and the texture unimpaired by time, and black, and
shining— showing a wonderful example of the preserving quality of
charcoal. Anything that carries one back to such very remote antiquity
becomes highly interesting ; and these remains may probably be (as
Petrie thought them) of an age prior to the Christian era.
" It is not foreign to this interesting subject to remember that the
old people have a tradition of there having been a circle of stones on a
part of the Hill — 'upright, and in a large circle.' They say that these
were taken away from time to tim? for building and other purposes.
And on the part of the Hill which their tradition marks out for this,
have been found the best cists and the best urns. Their tradition also
tells that, in times 'gone by,' individuals have found as many as up to
fourteen urns in a day, which they broke and threw away as useless,
when they found that there was neither money nor treasure therein, so
that it is now very difficult to find urns or any remains."
The Rev. Mr. Graves read the following letter from Lord
Gort, having reference to a note on the Kildare Rent-Roll, Vol. V.,
new series, p. 518, explanatory of the suggestion there implied that
the Earls of Kildare were head lords of the Cogan estate : —
" I see that the possession of the advowson of Beauver is thought to
imply that the Earls of Kildare were head lords of the Cogan estate
there. This requires explanation.
"In 1206, King John granted to Philip de Prendergast, eldest son
of Strongbow's famous companion, Maurice, a large territory near Cork,
of which Beauver (Bebh Or, the golden rock?) was the chief seat, and
which included Shandon, Ocorblethan, and the whole or greater part of
Kerricurrihy. At about the same time, five knights' fees in the same
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neighbourhood were confirmed by John to Richard de Cogan, to whom
Fitz Stephen had granted them. (Harris' Ware, ii. 195.)
" In these estates, as well as in the Lordship of Enniscorthy, and
Barony of Duffryn, county Wexford, Philip was succeeded by his eldest
son Gerald. This Gerald was twice married; first to Matilda, daughter
of Theobald le Botiller, by whom he had a daughter, Maria ; and
secondly, to a daughter of Richard de Burgo, whose name I have not found,
by whom he had another daughter, Matilda. To his large estates they
were co-heirs; and the former married John de Cogan, Lord Justice of
Ireland, the latter marrying Maurice de Rochford. Matilda's son and
heir, Maurice, recovered the advowson of Beauver from the Bishop of
Cork (see Plea Roll, No. 72, 5 Edw. II.) as appendant to his moiety of
the manor of Beauver, derived from Gerald de Prendergast, and from
him the Earls of Kildare inherited. The other half of this manor came
to Cogan. In 1263, in a suit as to a right to mills on the river Balla-
chuth or Avonbeg, Maurice Fitz Maurice (Rochford) and John Fitz John
de Cogan are both called as heirs of Gerald de Prendergast to produce
his grant of these mills. But, eventually, a new partition of the estates
on a better principle appears to have been made between the Cogans and
Rochfords, although the apportionment of the Church patronage was
apparently not altered ; for the Cogans are found possessed of both
moieties of this Ballachuth, Beauver, Shandon, &c., until Robert de
Cogan granted them to the Earls of Desmond in 1439 (the Geraldines
being, perhaps, in spite of Sir P. Carew, heirs general of Sir John de
Cogan), whilst the Rochfords similarly held the entire of the Wexford
estates, being Lords of Enniscorthy in 1302 (Inquis. 30 Edw. II.), and
holding the ' Barony of Duffir' in 1411. (Carew MSS.)
" This barony of Duffryn belonged to Maude, the wife of Philip de
Prendergast. Earl Strongbow gave his daughter, with the office of
Constable and Standard-bearer of Leinster, to Robert de Quincy, who
was soon after slain, when these offices were rightly inherited by his
only child, Maude, who eventually married Philip de Prendergast ; and
it was his wish to hold them which led Raymond le Gros to quarrel
with Strongbow.
" We have much to learn yet as to the pedigree of the Pembroke
branch of the De Clares. I believe Strongbow to have had more than one
legitimate child."
Mr. Prim contributed the following transcript, from a petition to
the Duke of Ormonde, as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, in 1663,
from the Petition Books of the period in the Evidence Chamber of
Kilkenny Castle ; it was interesting, as bearing on the existence of
wolves in Ireland in the latter end of the 1 7th century : —
" The Peticon of { " That yor Graces petr through God's assistance
William Collowe / and his owne industry hath found a way for the
destroying the Ravenous Wolfe & other vermin, wch much Annoy his
maties subjects the poor inhabitants of this kingdome, & being desirous to
improve his tallent he is now lately arived in this kingdome & purposeth
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with God's assistants & yr Graces Comission to goe on upon the worke
with all Expedicon. May it therefore please yor Grace to grant yor ordr
to yr petr and his assistants to use all means and to have free Egresse & re-
gresse in all places in this kingdome. for the doeing of the worke above
menconed. And allsoe that all Justices of the peace, majo", sherriffs and
other officers may be required to punish & restraine all persons, or any
person, that shall use the same way with yor Graces supld, until he hath
perfected his worke in killing the wolves of this kingdome (his way being
more then ordinary, and never knowne in this Kingdome, allthough it may
be without much difficulty attained and stollen from yor petr he having
once layd the ground worke), except as shalbe deputated by him, & all-
soe that Justices within this kingdome shall order such sattisfacon to be
given yor Graces petr for each wolfe destroyed by him & his as in yor
Graces wisdome shall thinke fitt: all which he submitts to yor Grace & de-
sists
" Yor Graces day ly Orator
" WILL. COLLOWE."
[Indorsement.]
" Dublin Castle 29° April 1663.
" Lett this Peticon be presented unto us att our next sitting att the
Councell Board, where the shalbe taken into Consideracon, & such further
order given thereuppon as shalbe thought fitt.
" ORMONDE."
The Rev. John O'Hanlon, R. C. C., M.R.I. A., sent the follow-
ing and concluding contribution to his valuable series of papers,
descriptive of the materials for the Topography and History of the
various Counties of Ireland, collected by the officers of the Ordnance
Survey of Ireland. The portion now sent related to the Counties
of Mayo, Gahvay, and Leitrim : —
" The Catalogue of the Topographical Collection for Mayo, in the Irish
Ordnance Survey Office, enumerates these following Records:— I. Inqui-
sitions, 2 vols., part with Roscommon ; Rough Index to ditto. J II. Names
from Down Survey (see Connaught volume). III. Extracts, 2 vols.2 In-
dex of Places to Irish part, not arranged.3 IV. Copy of Stafford's Survey
(MS.), 2 vols., and Index. Common Place Books, Q and R. V. Letters,
2 vols.4 VI. Name Books, 142. VII. Parish and Barony Names, 1 vol.
VIII. Memorandums, 1 vol. IX. Index to Names on Maps, 2 vols. X.
Ancient Map. XI. County Query Book, 1833. XII. Memoir Papers
(see detailed list annexed).
" II. The Names from Down Survey have been alluded to already in
the Connaught volume, the contents of which have been mentioned. '
.II. The 4to bound volumes of Extracts have References and Indices
prefixed. Vol. i. contains 375 numbered pages and written; besides ten
• ire.inOW Preserved 3 Thi. ^dex is now arranged, and
in the Royal Irish Academy's Library. bound in with both volumes.
n thT R Ti TU™J8 Aare,now, P^ved < These volumes are now preserved
Royal Insh Academy s Library. in the Royal Irish Academy's Library.
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pages of new Index with twenty of an old Index bound up in the middle
of this volume. It includes Extracts from a MS. of Trinity College,
H.I. 6 ; from O'Gara MS., R. I. A. ; from O'Clery MS., R. I. A. ; from ' Book
of Ballymote;' from an English MS. History of Ireland, R.I. A.; from
' Leabhar Breac ;' from a MS. of Trinity College, H. 2. 16; from O'Dugan's
Topographical Poem; from M'Firbis' Pedigrees; from MS. of Trinity
College, H. 2. 17; from MS. of Trinity College, H. 1. 17; from 'Book of
Lecan;' from Poem by M'Firbis, on the Topography of the Tribe-land of
Mayo and Sligo; from ' Annals of the Four Masters;' from Colgan's ' Acta
Sanctorum Hibernise' and ' Trias Thaumaturga;' from Betham's 'Irish
Antiquarian Researches;' from Ussher's ' Primordia;' from O'Flaherty's
' Ogygia;' from De Burgo's ' Hibernia Dominicana;' from O'Connell's
' Dictionary,' T. C. D. ; from Lanigan's * Ecclesiastical History of Ireland ;'
from Book of Survey and Distribution; from Inquisitions; and from
Stratford's Survey of the County Mayo. Vol. ii. contains 346 numbered
and written pages, with nineteen additional pages of Indices. It includes
Extracts from Archdall's * Monasticon Hibernicurn ;' from 'Annals of the
Four Masters;' from Irish Calendar of Saints; from Colgan's ' Trias Thau-
maturga' and 'Acta Sanctorum Hibernise ;' from O' Flaherty's 'Ogy-
gia;' from Lanigan's 'Ecclesiastical History;' from M'Parland's 'Sta-
tistical Survey;' from Mr. Petrie's Collections; from ' Tour through Con-
naught in 1779/ under the direction of Right Hon. William Burton; from
Ussher's 'Primordia;' and from an Inquisition taken at Cong in 1609.
The foregoing Extracts are in Irish, English, and Latin. Besides, we find in
this volume tracings of the following Maps at the end, viz. : — 1 . Cl.Ptolemsei
Geographia Hiberniae. The remaining eight Maps from the Down Survey
illustrate these several baronies, viz. : — 2. Burrishoole ; 3. Clonmorris ;
4. Carrah ; 5. Costello; 6. Erris; 7. Killmaine; 8. Murrisk; 9. Tirawley.
"IV. The two 4to MS. volumes of Strafford's Survey (copy from
original in R. I. A.), with Index, are found in the uniform style of volumes
already transferred to the Royal Irish Academy. The first volume is
neatly written and folio-paged 166. It is preceded by 28 double-columned
and closely -written pages of an Alphabetical Index of Personal Names.
The second volume contains folio-paging from 1 66 to 322, in a like style
of writing as in the first. It is followed by 175 pages of a local deno-
minational Index, in single columns, and with reference to the pages,
where each townland is named.
" V. The two quarto MS. volumes of Antiquarian Letters, are
bound in the uniform style for the Royal Irish Academy. The first
volume contains 504 numbered and written pages * besides 42 pages of a
preceding index. The first is an anonymous fragment or communication
of 14 pages, and it is without date. The next letter was written by Mr.
O'Donovan, as were also many other letters that follow. This is the
series, with dates and address. Ballina, Tirawley, May 12th, 1838 ; do.
15th, do. 15th, do. 17th, do. 22nd ; Binghamstown, May 30th, do. June
5th, do. 9th ; Westport, June 23rd, do. 30th, do. 25th, do. 26th, do.
29th, do. July 3rd, do. 3rd, do. 9th, do. 13th, do. 14th ; in all eighteen
letters by Mr. O' Donovan. Two letters are dated 21, Great Charles-street,
Dublin — one of these on the llth, and the other on the 12th of June, 1838.
Both were written by George Petrie, Esq. These following letters have
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been written by Mr. T. O'Conor, and they are severally distinguished.
Ballina, May 14th, 1838, do. 22nd; Killala, May 30th, do. June 3rd, do.
5th do. 7th, do. 8th; Ballycastle, June 13th, do. 13th, do. 15th; Ballina,
June 19th, do. 21st, do. 22nd; Foxford, June 23rd, do. 27th, do. 27th,
do. 29th, do. 30th, do. July 3rd; Swineford, July 9th, do. 10th; Ballagh-
aderreen, July 13th, do. 14th; Claremorris, July 15th; — in all 24
letters by Mr. O'Conor. The second volume contains 508 numbered
and written pages, besides 36 pages of a preceding index. The follow-
ing letters, as addressed and dated, were written by Mr. O' Donovan, viz.:
TVestport, July 17th, 1838; Ballinrobe, Friday, July 20th, do. 25th, do.
27th, do. 29th, do. 31st; do. August 2nd, do. 6th, do. 12th, do. 13th;
also communications — one dated May 15th, 1841; another is undated;
while the last is headed, April 13th, 1841. In all, there are thirteen
letters — many of these have been written at great length by Mr.
O' Donovan. Mr. Petrie has written one letter, which is headed, 21,
Great Charles-street, 7th September, 1838. The following letters have
been written by Mr. T. O'Conor, viz.: Ballyhaunas, July 17th, 1838, do.
18th; do. Castlebar, July 30th, do. August 1st; do. Ballinrobe, Aug.
llth, do. 13th, do. 14th, do. 15th, do. 15th, do. 16th, do. 17th, do. 18th;
do. Tuam, 21st, do. 22nd; do. Mountrath, Dec. 2nd — in all fifteen letters.
This second volume also contains five Maps, on tracing-paper, viz.: 1.
Mayo, from Speed's 'Prospect of the most famous parts of the World;'
2. Mayo, from Mercator's ' Atlas ;' 3. Mayo, from do. ; 4. Mayo, from
' Ortelius improved ;' 5. Mayo, from Down Survey. The letters, contained
in these two volumes, are filled with very minute and valuable topo-
graphical and antiquarian information.
u VI. The Name Books are 142 in number, as catalogued, and as
found on counting them. They are similar in shape and contents to others
of the series already described.
" VII. The Parish and Barony Names are found in a thin 4to bound
volume, of 84 numbered pages, with a list of 29 authorities preceding.
These are taken from Maps, Surveys, and printed Records. As usual,
Dr. O'Donovan has settled the orthography. Irish names, in the Irish
characters, with their English translations, are respectively postfixed.
"VIII. The Memorandums are found in one bound 4to volume of
fragmentary notes and observations, with map-traces, and some beautiful
sketches of ancient monuments. This MS. has 374 numbered pages, with
41 double-columned pages of index preceding. This volume is interest-
ing, likewise, for local antiquarian research.
'* IX. The two folio bound volumes of Index to Ordnance Survey
Maps — first A to K, and second, K to Z — resemble all others belonging
to the same series already described. The first volume contains 99 leaves ;
the second volume comprises 83 leaves. The local denominations are
usually found in triple columns.
"X. The Ancient Map, constructed on a plan precisely similar to that
of Galway, is of equal value to the antiquary. It may yet help some
Irish < Old Mortality' to many a resting-place of the dead, and to the
old rums yet existing in Mayo. Nearly all the remarkable ancient fea-
tures of this county can be identified by means of this Map, so laboriously
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and carefully constructed by the learned and researchful Dr. O' Donovan.
As an antiquarian and topographer —
' He was a man, take him for all in all,
We ne'er shall look upon his like again.'
"XI. The County Quzere Book for Summer Assizes of Mayo, 1833,
is a small 8vo pamphlet of 104 pages, and printed at Castlebar that same
year. It has reference to County Contracts for road repairs, and for
various other county charges. It may interest the statistician, hereafter,
but it is of little antiquarian value, at present.
"XII. The Catalogue, when alluding to the Memoir Papers for Mayo,
refers us to the detailed list of such documents. On examination, we
find nothing but what is contained under the heading, * Miscellanies re-
lating to various Counties.' What refers to Mayo is to be found in the
press, shelf 2, Irish Ordnance Survey Library.
"There are no distinct antiquarian sketches of ruins for this county.
" The following heads of subjects are taken from the Catalogue of
Topographical Collections for Galway in the Irish Ordnance Survey
Office : — I. Inquisitions, 4 volumes, including part of Leitrim ; Rough
Index of places,1 to do. II. Names from Down Survey, see Connaught
volume. III. Extracts, 2 volumes ; Rough Index of Places to do.3
IV. Letters, 3 volumes.3 V. Name Books, 242, and one duplicate book.
VI. Parish and Barony Names, 1 volume. VII. Memorandums, 2
volumes. VIII. County Index to Names on Maps, 2 volumes. IX.
Ancient Map. X. Memoir Papers (see detailed list annexed). XI.
Sketches of Antiquities, 464, not including those bound up with the
letters.
" I. The Inquisitions for the County have been already described in
this ' Journal,' vol. ii., new series, 1858, note 2, p. 103. But it must
be remarked, that the fourth volume of these County Inquisitions, there
noted as * VOL. XXIV., GALWAY AND LEITBIM INQUISITIONS,' contains at
present 129 numbered and written pages — not 192 as there stated.
Again, the Rough Index has disappeared ; and instead of it we find one
newly written, consisting of 481 pages of index to the Galway Inquisi-
tions. Besides these is an index to the two volumes of Galway Extracts.
These indices are postfixed with the fourth volume.
" II. The Names from Down Survey relating to this county are found
in the Connaught volume, which has been already described in connexion
with the County of Sligo Records.
" III. The First Volume of Extracts (4to, bound) contains 630 written
and numbered pages, together with an index of six columns prefixed.
The second volume contains 647 written and numbered pages. These
Extracts are taken from Colgan's * Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae;' 'Trias
Thaumaturga ;' Lanigan's 'Ecclesiastical History of Ireland;' Irish Ca-
lendar; many Notes of George Petrie and Eugene O'Curry ; an English
1 These are now preserved in the 3 These are now preserved iu the
Royal Irish Academy's Library. Royal Irish Academy's Library.
2 These are now preserved in the 4 These are now preserved in the
Royal Irish Academy's Library. Royal Irish Academy.
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MS labelled 'History of Ireland, R. I. A.;' Giraldus' ' Topographia Hi-
bernite-' A Latin Valuation of the Diocese of Clonfert; Archdall's 4 Peer-
ige-" Hardiman's 'History of Galway;' Museum Britannicum Bibl.
Had. No. 35. 7, fol. 235 b.; O'Flaherty's 'Ogygia;* Genealogies; 'Liber
Regalis Visitationis;' Inquisitions; 'Archdall's Monasticon Hibernicum ;
'Annals of Four Masters;' 'The Territory of West or HiarConnaught,' MS.,
T C D -Copy of a MS. in Trinity College Library, en titled 'History of Gall-
way,1 catalogued I. 4-11.; Table of Baronies and Parishes, MS., T.C.D.;
'Tour through Connaught in 1779,' under the direction of Rt. Honourable
Win Burton- Attainders, 1696, ' Book of Lismore;' M'Firbis; Irish Poem
on the Burkes, MS., T.C.D. ; O'Gara MS., R.I. A. ; « Leabhar Breac ;' O'Du-
gan's Topographical Poem ; ' Book of Lecan ;' ',Book of Ballymote ;' O'Clery
MS., R.I. A.; 'Book of Feenagh;' Irish Poem on Mount Echtge, MS.,
T.c'.D.', H. 2. 16; Do. H. 3. 18; Vita St Brendani Abbatis et Confessoris,
Ex '*Codice Kilkenniensi/ Marsh's Library, V. 3. 1. 4. f. 56. These se-
veral Extracts are in the English, Irish, and Latin languages.
"IV. The first volume of Antiquarian Letters (4to, bound) contains
654 numbered and written pages. Besides, there are 36 pages of an
index prefixed. John O'Donovan wrote the following letters, with places
and dates thus noted:— Tuam, 24th August 1838, do. 28th, do. 30th, do.
September 4th, do. 9th, do. 10th, do. 13th, do. 19th, do. 20th, do. 22;
Galway, September 27th, do., do. October 2nd, do. 3rd, do. 6th; Lough-
rea, October 10th, do. llth, do. llth, do. 21st, do. 23rd, do. 23rd, do.
24th, do. 25th; — in all twenty-three letters. Many of these letters
contain rough antiquarian sketches, and some of them are lengthy.
Thomas O'Conor wrote the following letters — places and dates thus noted:
Tuam, August 31st, 1838, do. September 3rd, do. 13th, do. 24th; Gal-
way, September, 27, do. October 3rd.; Loughrea, October 9th, do. llth,
do. 15th, do. 16th, do. 19th, do. 21st, do. 22nd, do. 23rd, do. 24th— in all
fifteen letters. P. O'Keefe writes one letter, dated Loughrea, October,
23rd. George Petrie wrote from 21, Great Charles-street, Dublin, 31st
August, 1838, do. 8th September, 1838, do. 14th, do. 26th, do. October
1st, do. 3rd, do. 25th, do. November 9th, — in all eight letters, which com-
prise handsomely executed, but rough antiquarian sketches. The second
volume of Antiquarian Letters contains 631 numbered and written pages,
with 26 pages of index prefixed. John O'Donovan wrote the following
letters, with places and dates thus noted: — Loughrea, October 29th,
1838 ; do. November 1st, do. 3rd, do. 5th, do. 7th; Gort, November 10th;
Mountrath, November 15th, do. 15th, do. 2 1st, do. 23rd, do. 23rd;— in all
eleven letters, including many rough antiquarian sketches. One of
these is a very lengthy dissertation on the ancient territories of Galway. P.
O'Keefe wrote the following letters, with places and dates thus noted: —
Loughrea, November 3rd, 1838, do. 6th, do. 20th; Mountrath, November
16th ; — in all four letters. George Petrie wrote one letter, dated Dublin,
21, Great Charles-street, November 12, 1838. Thomas O'Conor wrote
the following letters, with places and dates thus noted: — Loughrea,
October 27th, 1838; Gort, November 10th; Mountrath, November 16th,
do. 17th, do. 18th, do. 19th, do. 23rd;— in all seven letters. The third
volume of Antiquarian Letters contains 484 numbered and written pages,
with 25 pages of Index prefixed. John O'Donovan wrote the following
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letters, with places and dates thus noted: — Gal way, May 29th, 1839;
Oughterard, May 31st, do. June 5th, do. June 10th; Clifden, June 14th,
do. 16th; Taylor's Hill, near Galway, 22nd, do. 22nd, do. 22nd, do.
27th, do. July 3rd, do. 8th, do. 19th, do. 20th, do. 21st, do. 22nd, do.
27th; do. August 3rd, do 27th ; — in all nineteen letters. One of these
is an elaborate and a lengthy dissertation on antiquities. Messrs. Wake-
man and Petrie have illustrated these letters with an incredible number
of beautiful ink sketches. At the end of the third volume I find the
following Map Traces: — 1. Province de Connacie divisee en Dynasties
pour les premiers Siecles du Christianisme, par le S. Robert de Vaugondy
(1757); 2. Province of Connaught old map; 3. Gallen Barony, from Sir
William Petty 's Map, R. I. A. ; 4. Galway, from Mercator's • Atlas' (1636),
two traces; 5. Do., three traces; 6. Do., the Down Survey; 7. Do., Maps
in Speed's ' Prospect of the most famous parts of the World' (1610); 8.
Do. in separate baronies from Down Survey; 9. Modern Hand Sketch
of Galway ; 10. From Norden's * Map of Ireland' (' State Papers,' R. I. A.) ;
1 1 . Leinster and Munster, from a map among the * State Papers,' R. I. A. ;
12. Do. do.
u V. The Name Books are numbered 242, with one duplicate in ad-
dition; and this exactly corresponds with their enumeration. The dupli-
cate Name Book was written to replace another book, considered as
erroneously drawn up; and all of these Name Books exactly correspond in
external appearance with others of the series already described.
" VI. The Parish and Barony Name Book is a thin 4 to volume of 126
pages, nearly all of which contain writing, and very valuable antiquarian
and topographical information, in the well recognised handwriting of the
late learned Dr. O'Donovan. He has settled the local nomenclature, in
Irish and English, of the various parishes, and has given many corre-
sponding illustrative comments throughout this volume. It is preceded
by a list of 28 authorities for local denominations, selected from different
Maps, Surveys and other Records.
" VII. The Memorandums in two 4to bound volumes contain various
notes, observations, antiquarian drawings, map traces, &c. Many short
comments will be found in Dr. O'Donovan's handwriting. The first
volume contains 399 numbered pages, independently of 22 closely-written
pages, — an index of contents to the fragmentary matter following. The
second volume comprises 427 numbered pages, together with 23 closely
written pages of a double-columned index to what follows. For local
antiquarian and topographical purposes these volumes are interesting and
useful.
" VIII. The County Index to Names on Maps is comprised in two thick
folio bound volumes. The first volume is lettered on the back A to K.
It contains 123 leaves, written on both sides. The second volume is
lettered on the back K to Z. It contains 113 leaves, written on both
sides. The denominations usually run in triple columns; and in form
and matter these volumes are uniform with others of the same class al-
ready described.
" IX. The Ancient Map of Galway was formed with much care and
labour by Dr. O'Donovan, who erased nearly all the modern names of
places, from a County Index Map, and afterwards filled, in his own hand-
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writing, the Irish names in the Irish characters. The Index scale is
precisely the same as found prefixed to all the County and Townland
Maps now bound in large-sized square volumes. It need scarcely be ob-
served that this map is of great interest and value to all engaged in historic
inquiry, especially with regard to the ancient churches, monuments, and
territories of this county.
" X. The Memoir Papers of Galway are of no great importance, but
they have been already described under the heading Miscellanies re-
lating to various Counties, as found in the press, shelf 2, Irish Ordnance
Survey Library.
" XI. The Sketches of Antiquities for Galway County are as follow : —
1. Parish Arran Islands — Arran More. Cromwell's fort. 2. Part of
wall of Dun Aengus. 3. Tealagh Enda's church. 4. Teampul Benoin.
5. Teampul Brecan. 6. Teampul Chiarain. 7. East Window of Teampul
Chiarain. 8. Teampul Mac Duagh. 9. Doorway of Teampul Mac Duagh.
10. Inish Maan (Middle Isle) Kilcannonagh church. 11. Doorway of
Kilcannonagh church. 12. Window of Kilcannonagh church. 13. Inish-
orior, Kilgobnat. 14. St. Kevin's church. 15. Features of St. Kevin's
church. 16. O'Brien's castle. 17. Parish — Cong. Caislean na Circe,
Lough Corrib. 18. Doorway of St. Patrick's church, Incha Goile. 19.
Saints' church. 20. Stone in wall of Saints' church. 21. Stone on Incha
Goile. 22. Parish — Inishcaltra. Part of a stone cross on Holy Island. 23.
Ancient stone, with inscriptions. 24. Church and Round Tower on Inish
Caltra. 25. Parish — Kilcummin. Castle of Aughnanure. 26. Another
view of it. 27. Window in Aughnanure Castle. 28. Parish — Killannin.
Church of Killannin, called Teampull beg na neave. 29. Parish — Kil-
macduagh. Cathedral church and round tower of Kilmacduagh. 30.
Doorway of the large church of do. 31. Do. — another sketch. 32. Door-
way of the Round Tower of. 33. Chapel of the Virgin at. 34. Win-
dow in the E. gable of the Virgin's church at. 35. Church of John the
Baptist at. 36. Windows in. 37- Building N. E. of the Round Tower.
38. Parish — Moycullen. Castle of the Two Hags. 39. Parish — Moyrus,
Ballynahinch castle. 40. Church of Mac Dara. 41. Do. — Another sketch
of it. 42. Old church of Moyrus. 43. Parish — Omey. Ancient stones
near the church on High Island. 44. Do. — Ancient stones at. 45.
Crosses on High Island. 46. Parish — Oranmore. Doorway of round
tower of Roscom. 47. Stone in the church-yard at Roscom.
"The Catalogue enumerates the following records, as the Topographical
collection for the county of Leitrim: viz. — 1. Inquisitions, 2 volumes —
one volume including Roscommon, and part with Galway, Rough Index
of Places to do.1 2. Names from Down Survey (see Connaught volume).
3. Extracts, one volume, with Cavan.8 4. Letters, 1 volume, with Cavan.3
5. Name Books, 51. 6. Barony and Parish Names, one volume. 7.
1 Now preserved in the Royal Irish Academy's Library. On referring to
Academy's Library. The Rough Index page 33 of the Catalogue, I find extracts
of 1 laces to this rolume has been used from the British Museum relating to
to compile a better and later Index, Leitrim. This MS. has been already
which will now be found attached to the described.
volume, as preserved in the Academy. a NOW preserved in the Royal Irish
2 Now preserved in the Royal Irish Academy's Library.
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Memorandums, one volume. 8. County Index to Names on Maps. 9.
Memoir Papers (see detailed list annexed).
"I. The Inquisitions for Leitrim County have been already described
in this 'Journal,' vol. ii., new series, 1858, note 2, p. 103, and are
further alluded to, in the papers relating to the county of Roscommon and
Galway Topographical Collection.
*' II. The Names from Down Survey, relating to this county, are
found in the Connaught volume, which has been already described in
connexion with the county of Sligo records.
" III. The extracts (4to, bound) relating to this county will be found
with those referring to the county of Cavan. These have been already
described in the fourth volume, new series, of this ' Journal,' No. 43,
January, 1864, pp. 21, 26.
"IV. The Antiquarian Letters (4to, bound) relating to this county
will be found with those referring to the county of Cavan. These have
been already described in the fourth volume, new series, of this ' Journal,'
No. 43, January, 1864, pp. 21, 26.
** V. The Name Books are 51 in number, as the Catalogue states. In
shape, size, and plan, they resemble others of the series already described.
" VI. The Parish and Barony Name Book is a small oblong 4to
volume of 21 leaves, on each of which Dr. O'Donovan has settled the
Irish orthography of several parishes, with Latin and English transla-
tions. He has also added various topographical notes of considerable
interest. Postfixed to this MS. is a list of authorities for baronies and
parishes on a large folded sheet. This list is grounded on Maps, Sur-
veys and Records of various dates to the year 1832. Eighteen authori-
ties are enumerated. The MS. was compiled in June, 1836.
" VII. The Book of Memorandums is a thin 4to bound volume of
only 66 numbered pages. It contains notes, observations, and map
traces. It has an index of four columns on two pages preceding.
" VIII. The County Index to Names on Maps is a folio bound volume
of 64'leaves, on either side of which are pasted slips of triple denomi-
nations. It resembles all Books of this Series which have been hitherto
described.
" IX. On shelf 2 of the Ordnance Survey Library press will be
found miscellaneous matter relating to Leitrim County. This tract is
called Statistical Memoir of Union of Manorhamilton.
It only remains, to close these communications to the pages of the 'Kil-
kenny and south-east of Ireland Archaeological Society's Journal.' The
descriptive papers, furnished by the writer, were intended to give some
idea regarding the valuable matter already prepared by the Irish Ord-
nance Survey Department, and which had been originally designed for
the compilation of Irish County and Parochial Histories. Every true
lover of our country must lament this design having been placed in
abeyance, since the period of their collection and to the present time.
The absurd ' penny wise and pound foolish' policy of every Government,
called to sway the destinies of our Island, is completely pourtrayed, in
leaving these valuable MS. materials unused for purposes of publication.
Probably several hundreds of thousands have been expended in collecting
scientific information for the Irish Ordnance Survey. With the excep-
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tion of issuing a most valuable series of accurate maps, nothing more has
been done. To illustrate these maps in a proper manner, suitable scien-
tific and local Memoir Papers must be required. A few thousands of
pounds would effect this object; more especially, as the matter for it has
been already collected, classified and arranged. The Ordnance Survey
Memoir for the Parish of Templemore is a fair specimen of what the dom-
pleted work might be made. The sale of such Memoirs must fully defray
the cost of publication, within a few years, and without any considerable
money loss to the public exchequer. With a cherished hope of something
being yet done in this way, the writer may assert, that he has endea-
voured to present a complete and consecutive Catalogue, describing those
valuable MSS., ancient maps, and antiquarian sketches. His humble
efforts may attract the attention of more learned literary labourers to
them. Changes have occurred since he first commenced this task, and
which render the most interesting of these records accessible to the read-
ing public. Not originally intending to follow this system of communi-
cation to its natural sequence and conclusion, it may be stated, the eru-
dite and accomplished Hon. Sec., Rev. James Graves, expressed a desire
that a work thus casually commenced should be completed. If it
abound in errors of plan and execution — as the writer will readily admit
it does — the Members of our Society must accept, as his partial excuse,
the application only of occasional intervals, with more urgent duties often
supervening, and inconvenient distances interposed ; these combined
causes served very much to prevent anything like a perfect unity in
design, and delayed, to the present number, this closing Paper of a some-
what lengthened series.
The following papers were submitted to the Members : —
AN INQUIRY INTO THE ORIGIN OF THE FAMILY OF
ARCHER IN KILKENNY, WITH NOTICES OF OTHER
FAMILIES OF THE NAME IN IRELAND.
BY J. H. LAWRENCE-ARCHER, CAPTAIN.
IN certain popular heraldic works the crest assigned to the sur-
name "Archer," in Ireland, is " a mound azure banded and
crossed or," whereas there is no instance of the Archers of Kil-
kenny—probably the earliest of the name settled in this island-
ever having borne any crest whatever ; and in this respect their
sculptured coats of arms, throughout that city, form a solitary
heraldic exception. Even on an armorial " Archer" seal, attached
to the will of an Archer who lived in the seventeenth century,
although the shield is surmounted by a helmet, there is no crest,
and the rotundity and high relief of the helmet may have been
mistaken for an orb. Be this as it may, on another armorial seal,
Seals attached to Various Charters of the Archers of Tauwurth (Umbersiade)
from the last Earl of PlymouthsMuuiments.
See M.S. add1? to Dugdales Warwicksliire ill the British Museum.
•„•::
Seals of XorfoiL & Suffoll^Xrcliers (14 CentT)
(22.3.4.5.)
ForaUrtC0 Dublin
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of the same period, although there 13 a crest, it is doubtful whether
the seal bears the arms of Archer, notwithstanding that the estoiles,
or mullets, found in the Archer coat, on monuments in this city,
are conspicuous on this escutcheon, and form the crest.
Two questions at once present themselves — 1st, How came the
Kilkenny Archers not to have a crest ? 2nd, What could have
been the origin of the crest, imputed to them by Fairbairn and
others ?
Now, with reference to the latter, it seems to me that la monde
or may have been adopted, by some Archer in the seventeenth
or eighteenth century, as a canting heraldic memento of a civic
connexion with the great feudal family of Ormonde, whose for-
tunes have been so intimately associated with the city of Kil-
kenny, and where, from the year 1345 to 1652, no fewer than
sixty-five times does the name of Archer appear in the Magistracy,
as Portreves, Sovereigns, Mayors, Sheriffs, and Coroners, &c. ;
while on the other hand the Great Duke of Ormonde was chiefly
instrumental in obtaining for the people of Kilkenny the restoration
of their property, which had been seized by Cromwell's followers.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the great merchants
were probably more frequently members of the aristocracy, than at
the present day. Few, but such, could acquire the capital necessary
for embarking in commercial enterprise, and in Italy and Flanders,
&c., the chief merchants became the rulers of cities, and eventually
hereditary princes ; therefore the position held at an early period,
by the Archers of Kilkenny, was not incompatible with a noble or
knightly origin, but rather the contrary, as J hope to be able to
show more clearly in the following notes.
But to return — the absence of a family crest may fairly be at-
tributed to the Kilkenny Archers having separated from the parent
tree in England, before the period when crests became common; and
it is worthy of note, that the three pheons borne by the Kilkenny
Archers were the actual coat of the family of le Archer of War-
wickshire before the time of Thomas le Archer, second son of John
le Archer of Tanworth (Umberslade), who was the first of his
family to use the three broad arrows, and to assume a crest. " He
(Thomas le Archer) was Grand Prior of the Knights of St. John
of Jerusalem, in England, and as such was reckoned the first
Baron in the realm."1 His seal is well known, and is an example,
at the early period of the reign of Edward II., of the adoption of
supporters. To a document bearing date the fourteenth year of
this monarch's reign, Thomas le Archer, Grand Prior, appears as
party on the one part, and on the other, his relatives, John le Archer*
•Jacob's Peerage, and "History of 'This John was possibly the Grand
the Hospitallers in England." Prior in Ireland.
2 G
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and Thomas le Archer ; while the seal of Nicholas le Archer shows
another variation of the same arms, viz., pheons, not arrows.
In all the printed pedigrees of the Archers of Umberslade, and
even in that which is preserved in the Heralds' College, many
younger sons' names are omitted ; but this defect is remedied in a
copy of Dugdale's " Warwickshire," to be seen at the British
Museum, where the annotator has carefully transcribed the ancient
charters of this family, and given drawings of the seals attached to
them, with other curious additions. Happening myself to possess
the original holograph list of his family, charters, &c., made by
Sir Simon Archer, I could verify those given by the annotator in
question. Sir Simon, however, had not very carefully extracted
all the names of collateral ancestors for his friend Dugdale ; and
amongst others omitted, in all the printed pedigrees, is that of the
above Nicholas le Archer, and also of another Nicholas le Archer,
whose seal, attached to a grant of free warren, in the fourteenth
century, bears the quaint device of a hare walking on its hind legs,
a dead dog dangling to a stick over its shoulder, with the ad-
ditional letters " c h e r" — i. e. Hare cher !
Now, in Rymer's "Fcedera" will be found a notice of John
le Archer, Grand Prior (also in the reign of Edward II., and con-
sequently contemporaneously with Thomas le Archer of Tanworth
in England) of the Knights Hospitallers in Ireland. In the year
1341, while Grand Prior, he offered to prove his right to the church
of Dunboyne " by his champion." His rank socially must have
been considerable, for "none were admitted into the rank of
Knights, but such as had previously distinguished themselves, or
who were at least descended from ancient knights."1
" This Prior" (le Archer), continues the same author, " was
entrusted with a commission to Edward III. from a Parliament
held in Kilkenny, praying that several grievances might be re-
dressed .... for the English either ruled with a rod of
iron ... (or had) become more Irish than the Irish them-
selves."2
In 1345, Walter Archer was Portreve of Kilkenny, as was
also John Archer; and in 1350 Adam Archer was Portreve. It
is exceedingly probable that a clue to the origin of these three, if
not indeed a direct proof of their parentage, would be found in the
Mb. additions to Dugdale just mentioned, especially as I do not
unk that any but the one family of Le Archer, descended from
the tutor of King Henry I., bore the surname of Archer, until
enry V. conferred it on Simon de Bois, of Essex. This is con-
trary to what would naturally be supposed— namely, that the
> Burton's "History of Kilmainham." cord that, in 1373 Thomas Archer,
the F«TfSn B°illler' a >8e so» °f of Umberslade, while foraging in France,
n Irol J ,°rmo"de' ™s Grand Prior one day, with Robert Botelerwd others,
reland temp. Hen. V. It is on re- was made prisoner
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patronymic was common when the profession of an archer was
in repute ; but that the contrary was the case, I am inclined to
believe, there can be little doubt; and a paper on this question
will be found in •* The Herald and Genealogist."1 Nicholas
le Archer, it is there shown, had the privilege of carrying the
King's own bow, through all the forests of England, and was, par
excellence, " le Archer," a surname entirely monopolized by this
family, until the profession of archery decayed, and Henry VII I.
created a professional archer burlesque Duke of Shoreditch !
It has occurred to me as neither impossible, nor improbable, that
the Archer family of Kilkenny came to Ireland in the immediate
following of " Strongbow"; and may even have been connected
with that noble by ties of kindred ; for in the church of St. Bu-
rian, Cornwall, there is an old armorial sculpture of the now ex-
tinct family ofLevelis, quartering " Clare"2 and "Archer" in succes-
sion, the latter quartering being also that of the earliest Kilkenny
Archers (sab. 3 pheons argt.), and of John le Archer, of Tan-
worth, father of Thomas, the Grand Prior of the Hospitallers, but
with the difference of a chevron engrailed argent, which may be
thus accounted for : —
John le Archer, of Tanworth, Co. Warwick, and champion to
Thomas Earl of Warwick, married the daughter3 of William de
Barneville (a name conspicuous in the Norman annals of Ireland,
and particularly in the peerage of Trimleston), and bore for his
arms — sab. 3 pheons argt.
This John died in the 35th of Henry III., leaving several sons
(elsewhere accounted for); and Nicholas le Archer, either his son
or brother, held possessions at Stoke, in Clare, Gloucestershire, in
the 15th Edw. I., by providing a man with bow and arrows,4 to
attend the King's army when it marched against the Welsh.
In the 7th Edw. II., Edmond le Archer held these lands in
Clare (partly, at any rate) of Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester and
Hertford : they were contiguous to those of the Berkeley family ;5
while it is not unworthy of note, that (see " Herald and Geneal.," p.
22) David le Blund, of Bristol, was married to Amabilia le Archer ;
and in transactions during the reigns of Henry III. and Edwd. I.,
these persons' names are recorded along with that of John, "filii
Mauricii de Salso Morisco,'' all of the County Gloucester.
Possibly, before the extinction of the male line (or at any rate of
the senior family) of le Archer of Stoke, in Clare, by the marriage
of its heiress with William de Berkeley of Coberly6 (as appears
by an Inquis. P. M. of the 24th Edw. III., in which it is stated, that
" Gilbert le Archer, seised of Archerstok, in the County of Glou-
1 No. XII., 1865. 4 Rudder's " Gloucestershire "
2 This quartering has been disputed. 5 See the Arms of Clare and Berkeley
3 Or, ". Christina secunda, nuper Will' in Bristol Cathedral,
de Barneville. " fi Near Cheltenham.
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cester, held of the King in capite, by supplying him with a eheaf
of arrows in war time, forever"— that " he died on the 8th October;
and that " Joanna, the wife of Thomas de Berkeley de Coberly,
is his daughter and heir, and is aged 24 years and upwards"), an
uncle, or brother, of the original Nicholas le Archer, accompanied
the relatives of his mother or kinswoman, Christian de Barneville,
to Ireland, taking with him the pure paternal coat ; or the Kil-
kenny family may have only adopted the latter, on the death of
Gilbert le Archer, in the reign of Edwd. III., having previously
used some other coat, of which I do not think that any record is
preserved.
In the meantime, another branch of the Gloucester le Archer
family, after one of the Welsh expeditions of the Clare family,1
probably settled in Cornwall, and introduced, for a difference, the
chevro7i, engrailed argt. while it is highly probable that the family of
Levelis, in that county, was of similar origin — a supposition which
has acquired weight, by the suggestion of an excellent authority on
the point, that " Levelis" was simply " Le Walleys," " Le Vallis,"
" Wallis," " Walsh," — the Welshman, as he was likely to have
been named in his new locality.
This connexion between Archer and Clare in Gloucester —
between Clare,2 Archer, and Levelis, in Cornwall,3 and finally
between '* Strongbow," Barneville, Walsh, and Archer, in Ireland,
is very suggestive, on more than one point.
On the extinction of the chief male line of Archer, in Kilkenny,
(by the marriage of its heiress, Eose Archer, with Kichard Shee,
and the consequent transfer of her arms to the escutcheon of the
latter), it would be curious to ascertain, whether the other, and
junior family of Archer, did not then, for the first time, assume a
coat armorial, selecting for their purpose that of their kinsmen, the
Walshes of Castle Hoel, by reversing the three pheons of the latter.
Possibly, however, that of Walsh itself was a coat manufactured,
so to speak, originally, during one of the Welsh expeditions, out of
the sable, three pheons argt. of the Gloucestershire Archers (of
which family the original Walsh, was perhaps, a not fully recognised
member), with the augmentation of the chevron gules of Clare;
but, inasmuch as the latter would have been " colour upon colour, "
the former were exactly reversed in every particular. If this
suggestion be worth anything, then the presumption is, that the
junior Archers of Kilkenny resumed, to a certain extent, their
own coat, which might well have been qualified by such a motto
as that borne by the present noble family of Warwick.
i Gilbert dc Clare was granted to en- argt. (query , " Langton," of Kilkenny),
joy all that he might conquer in Wales and not that of " Clare," as stated by
i am informed that this coat is that one of the historians of Cornwall,
frenco,' viz., sable 3 chevronels 3 See note on Walsh, infra.
Armorial (tnsuut* itf Mtv families.
IN THE CITY OF KILKENNY.
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On the other hand, the question at once presents itself, was not
the coat of Walsh of Castle Hoel a coat armorial taken from the real
one, of the first Irish Archer, under Strongbow, before the family
assumed the pure coat, in the 14th century, as before suggested ?
Be this as may, it is quite certain that much confusion existed
in Norman Irish heraldry, in the feudal ages ; and a notable in-
stance is to be found, in that of the family of O'Shee of Garden
Morris, three of whose four first quarterings are inverted, and are
not O'Shee at all, but simply Archer reversed, with its quarter-
ings of Bermingham, Walsh, Purcell, &c. — an error, strange to say,
that has escaped notice up to the present time.
With regard to other families of Archer in Ireland, there are
strong reasons for believing, that the Archers of Wicklow originated
in the Suffolk branch of the Warwickshire family ; and that they are,
if so, probably akin to that of Kilkenny ; while by their connexion
with the family of Archer in Wexford, they probably have engrafted
the Essex family of De Boys alias Archer. The Archers of Belfast,
on the other hand, came from Berwickshire, and are akin to the
Archers of Cupar Angus, whose ancestors appear to have been
related by marriage, to the family of the "Admirable Crichton,"
inasmuch as Elspeth Archer was spouse to John Crichton in the
Hill of Strathworde (Will, 10th July 1601). In conclusion it
may be observed that this surname is exceedingly rare, as it always
has been, in Scotland.
I do not presume to put forward these suggestions, and ideas,
dogmatically, on so remote and obscure a subject, but merely
scatter them as arrows, to be used again by other hands, or cast
aside, if pointless.
In conclusion, the foregoing evidence may be thus briefly sum-
marized : —
1st. That the family of Archer in Ireland came over with
Strongbow.
2nd. That at that period, and until temp. Hen. V., there
was but one family called le Archer in England, all others being
only branches of that one.
3rd. That the Archers of Stoke Archer, in Clare, held their
lands from the time of Henry III. in Gloucester, partly under the
Clares, and partly " in capite"
4th. That Nicholas le Archer of Archerstoke, Gloucester,
accompanied Strongbow's father in his expedition against the
Welsh, and that the two families were in connexion feudally, with
each other, from the earliest period.
5th. That while Thomas le Archer of Tanworth was Grand
prior of the Hospitallers in England, John le Archer was Grand
Prior in Ireland, and was in Kilkenny at the sitting of the famous
Parliament there.
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6th. That the first coat armorial borne by the le Archers in
Ireland, was sable 3 pheons arg. : and that this was the coat of
the Gloucester family, derived from the Warwickshire, before the
latter had acquired " Azure 3 arrows or."
7th. That after the Archers of Gloucester cease to be noticed
in that county, other (?) Archers, with the same baptismal names,
appear in Ireland.
8th. That the original Irish Archer coat passed by an heiress to
the Shees, while the other branches adopted variations on those of
Strongbow, and that there is evidence, that the Gloucester and
Irish Archers were related to the Barneville family, a daughter of
which married John le Archer of Tanworth. The Barnevilles
followed Strongbow's father into Wales, and the Tanworth and
Clare Archers were identical.
PROOFS AND ILLUSTRATIONS.
Portreves, Sovereigns, Mayors, Sheriffs, Coroners, $c., of the City of Kilkenny,
named Archer, from 1345 to 1652.
COMMUNICATED BY MR. J. G. A. PRIM.
1345 Walter Archer, .... P.
John Archer, .... P.
1350 Adam Archer, .... P.
1356 David Archer, .... S.
1366 David Archer .... S.
1376 David Archer, .... S.
1377 David Archer, .... S.
1390 Walter Archer, .... P.
1399 William Archer Fitz Walter, P.
1425 William Archer, .... S.
1434 William Archer, ... S.
1447 Elias Archer, .... S.
1464 William Archer, ... S.
1466 William Fitz Elias Archer, . S.
1467 Walter Archer, .... S.
1468 Walter Archer, .... S.
1498 Peter Archer, .... S.
1498 John Archer, .... P.
1499 John Archer, .... S.
1503 Patrick Archer, .... S.
1508 Patrick Archer, .... S.
1518 Patrick Archer, .... S.
1520 Peter Archer, .... S.
1521 Peter Archer, .... S.
1528 Walter Archer, Fitz John, . P.
1542 Walter Archer, . . S.
1544 Walter Archer, . . S.
1568 Walter Archer, . S.
1572 Thomas Archer, . . S.
1574 Laurence Archer, . S.
1588 Thomas Archer, . S.
1690 Walter Archer, . . S.
1693 John Archer, Fitz W Hiam, . S.
1597 Thomas Archer, . . S.
1601 Patrick Archer, . . S.
1603 Martin Archer, . S.
1611 Thomas Archer, . . . .
1611 Patrick Archer, Thomas]
being removed, . . )
1611 John Archer, . . . .
1612 Edmond Archer, . . . .
1613 Edmond Archer, . . . .
1613 Edmond Archer, ....
1615 Edmond Archer, .
1616 Michael Archer, ....
1616 Edward Archer, . . . '.
1617 Andrew Archer, ....
1621 Walter Archer, . . . .
1625 Walter Archer, . . . .
1625 David Archer, ....
1627 Walter Archer, ....
1628 Henry Archer, ....
1634 Thomas Archer, ....
1635 Peter Archer, . . . .
1636 James Archer, ....
1638 John Archer, ....
1639 Michael Archer, ....
1640 Nicholas Archer, . . .
1641 Thomas Archer, . . .
1643 Walter Archer, . . .
1646 Peter Archer, Fitz Nicholas, .
1648 Thomas Archer, Fitz Edward,
1652 Luke Archer, ....
Portreves of Irishtown.
1548 William Archer, Fitz Peter.
1586 James Archer, Fitz Patrick.
1610 Robert Archer, Fitz Richard.
1620 Nicholas Archer.
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Charter 0/1608.
1608 William Archer, Alderman.
James Archer, Merchant, Burgess.
Charter 0/1609.
1609 Thomas Archer,
Patrick Archer, }- Aldermen.
Walter Archer,
Thomas Archer,
Patrick Archer,
Walter Archer,
John Archer,
Martin Archer, Merchants
John Archer Fitz Laurence
Edward Archer,
Andrew Archer,
Society of
CALENDAR. INQTJISITIONUM HIBERNLE IN OFFICIO KOTULORUM
CANCELLARIAE, VOL. i.
Carlow.
Walter Archer. — 18 Oct' an' 2 Carl' I. seis' fuit de medietat' rector'
p'sonag' &c., de Tullephelim, Kilkraughage, & Rathvill, & p script' suu
dat' 22 Mar' 1613 feoffavit Rob' Archer Fitz Walter' de civit' Kilk'
& Therlaghe Fitz Thomas Loghlin de Downemore in Co' Kilk' her' &
assign' suos de p'mss' ad'us' ult' volunt' p'd' Walter' cujus scripti tenor
sequit' in orig': p'd' Walter condiditsua ult' voluntat' 18 JuP 1619 &
habuit tempore mortis preter Hen' Archer fil' & her' ejus, Tho', Jac',
Joh' & Patric' Archer et un' filiam Catherin' que unmaritata fuit.
Kilkenny.
John Archer. — 8 Mar' 1618; (21 Jac I.) nuperde Corbetstoune, in Co*
Kilken' defunct' seis' fuit die quo obiit ut de feod' devil' & ten' de
Mothell al' Mohill & Inchebryde . . . et de Ballyrancke . . . et ea
tenuit de dno Dingwall et Eliz' ux' s ut de maner' de Downemore in
soccag', mediet' . . . vil' ter' . . . de John Rothestowne & Rathmo-
nane . . . et ea tenuint de Edm' Purcell ut de maner' de Drom-
herch al' Dromerrin in soccag'
p'd' Joh' Archer est fil' & her' diet' Joh' &
fuit etat' 40 annor' et maritat', Ellinor Cantwell ux' sua.
John Archer. — (46 Jac I. 1624) seis fuit &c. de Rector' de Mothell &c.,
&c., per chart' gereut' dat' 15 Oct' 1588, ded' Walter' Lawles
de Kilken' & Jac' Archer Fitz de eade mercator' vil' de
Lisclevan, &c., &c., p'd' Joh' Archer p chart' sua dedit p'fat' Joh'
Archer, &c., &c.
Walter Archer.— (Kilk. 10 Oct., 1625, 5 Carl. I.) nup' de Nova Ross in
Co' Wexford' & Tho' Purcell de Garryduffe in Co' Kilken' seis' fuer'
de maner' &c Mucckully in Co' Kilken' William's towne & Bally-
lonane, &c., sic seis' pd' Edm' Tho' & Walter' p' chart' dat' 24 April'
1613, p sum' 300J. deder' Wil' Den &c., &c. (many more lands men-
tioned'] p'd' Walter' Archer & Edm' Purcell p fact' dat' 2 Mail 1623
in consideracon' 501 g Wil' Shee solut' &c. Obiit 16 Aug' 1625.
Walter Archer (Kilk. 19 Apl. 1626, 8 Carl. I) senior de Kilken' defunct'
seis' fuit de maner' castr' vil' et ter' de Brickinclaraghe &c., &c.,
. . p'd' Walter' Archer sic seis' p fact' suu geren' dat' 1 Dec' an' reg'
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nup' Reg' Eliz' 30 & A.D. 1587 feoffavit Ric' Sedgraue . . .
Patric' Talbott de Malahide, &c. &c. ad us' ult' voluntat' p'd' Walter'
Archer prout p p'd' fact* apparet . . Ide Walter Archer condidit
ult' volunt' sua dat' 24 Mali an' reg' Jac' nup' Reg' 2, et devisavit inter
aP Eliz.' Bermingha ux' pd' Walter' durant' viduetat' et postea ad us'
Walter* Archer junior' . . remaner' inde Hen' Archer fiT pd' Wal-
ter'junior', remaner' unppet' Beale Archer & Mar' Archer filiabus
pd' Walter' senior': p'd' Walter' Archer senior obiit 10 Maii 1606.
Ffat' Walter' junior fuit fil' et her' p'd' Walter' senior' et fuit plen'
etat' temp' mortis p'tris sui et maritat' Eliz' Archer aP Shee. Wal-
ter' Archer junior obiit 4 Jan' 1625. Hen' Archer est fil' et her' et
tune fuit plen' etat' et maritat' &c., &c., &c.
Joh' Archer Fitz Walter' (22 Sep. 1636. Carl I.) nup' de Corbettstowne
in Co' Kilken' in vita sua seis' fuit' de Rector' de Mothill, &c. obiit 16
Oct' 1617. Walter Archer est ejus.fil' & her' etat' 40 an' & maritat':
p'miss' tenebant' de fte in Soccag' in Capite.
Oliver Grace (6 Oct. 1618) de Kilrindowney, &c., &c. p script' gerent' dat'
14 Maii 1611 feoffav' Helia Archer of Bowlincomyn de viF & ter'
de Rossnenewle.
Hen' Comerford (13 Jan. 1618) de Ballymaca &c. p'd' WiP [Crains-
borogh] sic seis' existen' p fact' suu geren' dat' 28 Nov' 1590 demisit
p'mss cuida Tho' Archer Fitz- Walter de Civit' Kilken' Alderman'
nup' defunct' ad term' 66 annor' &c. p' Tho' Archer fuit seis' de 25
acr, &c., in Erlestoune, &c. &c. p'd' Tho' Archer feoffavit de p'mss'
quosda WiP Crainsbrough, Philip Crainsbrough & Edm' Archer p
fact' dat' 2 Oct 1595 &c. p'd' Tho' Archer Fitz- Walter obiit 14 Jan'
1617-^Johanna, Leticia Margaret' Katherin' & Ros' Archer sunt
filie et cohered' ejus et fuer' plen' etat' temp' mortis [the four first
were married before their father* s death'].
Ric.' Shee Mil' (17 Apl. 1623). Tho' Archer Fitz-Patrick de Kilken'
. . . Joh' Archer Fitz-Lawrence.
Oliver Waton (21 Oct 1624) . . p script' gerent' dat' 10 Aug. 1615
dimisit quibusda Joh' Archer Fitz-Laurence et Nich' Archdekin &c.
Joh1 Cantwell (6 Sep. 1637) de Cantwell's Courte, &c. &c. alienavit p'miss'
p'd' Tho Archer de Kilken' alderman' . . . temp' reg' nup'
Reg' Jac' alienar' Mich' Archer & Tho' Archer.
Joh' Grace de Courtestowne p chart' sua gerent' dat 28 Dec' 1590
feoffavit quosda, Ric' Shee mil,' Helia Shee, Tho' Archer . . .
Patric' Archer, &c.
Patric' Archer (10 April 1634) nup' de Civit' Kilken' in vita sua seis' fuit
de Killnowling aP Kilbally howling .... et sic seis' p fact' suu dat'
temp' Reg' Jac' alien' Marc' Shee de Kilken'.
Joh' Cantwell (6 Sep. 1637). It is stated that Patrick Archer died 30
Dec., 1609.
Ric' Vicecom' Mount Garrett (30 Oct., 1621.)— Walter Archer Fitz- John
mentioned as witness to a deed, 39 Eliz. 19 May.
Walter Archer Fitz- John is again mentioned in the inquisition of John
Archer, 21 Oct., 1624.
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Meath.
Francis' Archer (Jac I, 28 Oct., 1623.) de Dub' seis' fuit' &c. p'd' Fran-
cisc' Archer p fact' feoff' dat' 19 Jun. 1614, concess' Job' Gilliott
de Sturmenston in Co' Dub' (p'mss' tenent' de Be' in Capite p srvic'
mil'.)
Wexford.
Petr' Butler deOld Abbey (6 Sep., 1625) .... concessit .... (1601
Oct. 6) Walter' Archer de Kilken', .... Joh1 Archer Fitz- Walter
de Kilken' mercator' &c.
WILLS OF THE ARCHER FAMILY BECORDED IN THE PROBATE COURT, CITY
OF KILKENNY.
(Extracts.)
1536, September 20th. Peter Archer — This is a will and inventory
"bonorum Petri Archer filii Willelmi Archer Burgensis villa? Kilken."
The testator mentions his wife, Ellen Purcell, his sons, William and
Bichard, his daughter, Bose, and a friend, Nicholas Hacked.
1574, September 1 1th. Lawrence Archer, of Kilkenny, mentions his son
and heir John, his brothers, Walter, Patrick, and Bichard Archer;
his sister Catherine Archer ; his daughter Catherine ; his four married
daughters ; his cousin John Archer, of Boss ; Mathew Dormer. He
forgives debts due to him by his cousins, William Archer Fitz-John,
and Michael Archer; his brother Walter Archer, and Patrick Bothe,
are also mentioned. There are the following directions in the will,
"My body to be buried in Or Lady Chapell, in St Patrick's Church, in
Kilkenny, towards my father under the tombe that
lyeth at the my del of the altar. "
1602. January 13th. Joh Archer Fitz-Laurence, burgess of the city of
Kilkenny, mentions his sons, William and Matthew; his daughters,
Margaret and Govaee, to whom he leaves land in fee ; his debtors are
Thomas Archer Fitz-Patrick ; John Both Fitz-Gerald ; Bichard Both
Fitz- Walter ; Margaret Archer Fitz-John and Walter Archer.
1605, December 14th. Megge Archer Fitz-Edward, of the city of Kil-
kenny, widow, mentions her son, Jenken Both ; her daughter, Megge
Both; others, viz., John Archer Fitz-Walter ; Margaret Archer Fitz-
Edward, Elizabeth Cantwell, and the "body to be buried with her
husband Jenkinge Both, in the Choire of Our Lady Chapell, Kilkenny."
1617, February 10th. Thomas Archer Fitz Walter, Alderman of Kil-
kenny, directs that his body be buried " in St. James' Chappie, in Our
Ladie Church," in the arch where his " brother, Piers Archer was
buried," mentions his wife Margaret Crainsbrugh (Knaresborough) ;
his son-in-law, Patrick Archer and his wife Johana, the testa tor's daugh-
ter; his son-in-law, Edmond Archer, the husband of his daughter, Ann
2 H
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Archer; his other daughters, Margarest, Lettice, Catheren, and Rose;
his brother Mr. Walter Archer, of Catherlagh (Carlow) ; his nephew
Walter Archer.
1 G62, November 29th. James Archer, of Freshford, Kilkenny, gent,
mentions his lands, leases, &c.; his eldest son, John Archer; his wife
Isma Archer, alias Browne; his brother Peter; his late "unckle,"
Walter Archer; his daughters; u hereditaments and lands formerly
in possession of my ancestors." Witnesses, Redmond Russell, Daniel
Egan, John Murphy.
1681. January 4th.— Luke Archer, of the City of Kilkenny, " preist" —
mentions as his executor his brother, Richard Archer, and leaves to
his nephew, Marcus Stafford, all that belongs to
*' ye clergy" (imperfect).
1722. Nov. 7th Martin Archer, priest, of the City of Kilkenny —
appoints Michael Archer, merch*, of Kilkenny, executor — Bequeaths
rents of certain property to the Romish Church — Failing the said
execr, the following are named to succeed as execrs, viz., James Archer,
and his three sons, 1, Nicholas; 2, William; 3, "Michaell."
1729. May 13th. — Martin Archer, of the City of Kilkenny — mentions
his wife Margaret Archer als. Langton — His daur Margery, m: to
"Nicholas Shee, of this City" — his unm: daur Margaret, to whom he
bequeaths " the bulk of my fortune" — Bequests to " poor Ralph
Lawrence," and his barber, Tho8 Daniel — to his brother Ralph Archer
— his cousin Peter Archer — Mr. Gregory Wall — mentions his silver
tankard, &c. — Witness, Pat. S* Leger.
Attached to the four first of the above wills are the following seals: —
1. Ecclesiastical Seal of the Bishop of Ossory to the Probate of the
Will of Lawrence Archer, 1575.
2. Armorial Seal, richly mantled. Arms — .... on a bend,
three sheldrakes (?) — In the sinister chief a mullet or estoile of 6 points,
on two of which it rests. Crest — On a wreath over an esquire's helmet,
un estoile, or mullet, resting on two of the six points.
3. Armorial Seal, richly mantled. Arms — On a chevron ....
between 3 pheons, as many mullets or etoiles of six points, disposed as
usual. Crest — Effaced; helmet, however, remaining.
4. A heart pierced by two arrows.
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FCEDEKA, ETC. (RYMEIl).
Vol. II. Pars 2, p. 1188.
De hominibus ad arma in Hibernid eligendis.
A. D. 1342. An. 16 Edw. III. — Kex, justiciaries Hibernia?, vel ejus locum
tenenti, & fratri Johanni Larcher priori hospitalis Sancti Johannis
Jerusalem' in Hibernia, Salutem.
Quia passagium nostrum versus partes transmarinas, tarn pro
defensione regni nostri Anglian quam pro recuperatione jurium nos-
trorum manu forti, ordinavimus in proximo, Deo duce, & ea de causa,
multitudinem armatorum oportet necessario nos habere ;
Vobis mandamus quod centum homines ad arma de fortioribus
validioribus, decentioribus, et melioribus hominibus terras nostraa
Hiberniae, ac nongentos hobelarios armis competentibus bene & suffi-
cienter munitos, in eadem terra, cum celeritate qua fieri poterit,
eligatis, arraietis, & ipsos armis et aliis necessariis muniri faciatis; ita
quod praedicti homines, tarn armati quam hobelarii, electi, arraiati, &
ad plenum muniti, ut est dictum, prompti sint & parati cum vos, vel
aliquem vestrum, & ipsos facerimus praemuniri, in obsequium nos-
trum, prout tune ordinabimus profecturi.
Et hoc, sicut nos & honorem nostrum ac expeditionem negociorum
nostrorum diligitis modis omnibus faciatis.
T. R. apud Turrim London', x. die Marc'.
Per ipsum Regem & Cons'.
(Id. p. 1190.)
De hobelariis in Hibernid eligendis.
A. D. 1342. An. 16 Edw. III. — Rex, justiciario suo Hibernia?, vel ejus
locum tenenti, & fratri Johanni Larcher, priori Hospitalis Sancti
Johannis Jerusalem' in Hibernia, Salutem.
Cum nuper per breve nostrum mandaverimus vobis, quod nongen-
tos hobelarios una cum aliis hominibus ad arma, in dicta terra nostra
Hibernias celeriter eligeretis & arraiaretis, & ipsos bene et competenter
muniri faceretis, quod prompti sint & parati ad proficiscendum in ob-
sequium nostrum versus partes transmarinas, juxta mandata nostra,
vobis super hoc dirigenda;
Vobis quibusdam de causis committimus & mandamus quod de
dictis nougentis hobelariis eligi & triari, sexcentos hobelarios numeri
prsedicti, & eos armis, equis, et aliis necessariis bene et competenter
muniri faciatis ;
Ita quod ipsi sexcenti hobelarii una cum hominibus ad arma prae-
dictis, prompti sint & parati ad progrediendum in obsequium nostrum,
cum vos super hoc fecerimus praemuniri.
Et hoc nullo modo omittatis.
T. R. apud Turrim London', xx. die Marc'.
Per ipsum Regem & Cons'.
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REGISTER OF ALL HALLOWS, DUBLIN. IR. ARCH. Soc., 1845, p. 72.
A Convention between the Prior of the Convent of All Hallows & Adam
Long, of the town of Wicklow, the latter giving " illam placeam edifi-
catam quam dictus Adam emit de Galfrido le Archer."
Dated 15 Hen. III. (28 Oct., 1230, to 27 Oct., 1231).
HERALD AND GENEALOGIST,
Manor of Bitton, Gloucestershire.
The Manor of Oldland was, in 1275, held by Gilbert de Clare, while
David le Blund & Stephen de la More held Bitton.
From the Clares it passed to the Earls of Stafford. Inq. P. M., 10 Ric. 2.
The dependency of Bitton— Hanham — was, after the Doomsday record,
held by Salso Marisco (Saltmarsh). In 1287 J. de S. M. founded his
title to it on a charter of Robert Harding (ancestor of the Earls of
Berkeley), to Robert Hanham, (ancestor of Saltmarsh).
After the year 1327 John Brittayne occupied Bitton Court, as a tenant.
In a qui wxrranto, 15 Edw. I., it is shown that Rob* D'Amnerville had
ttvo daughters, both named Petronilla. The younger married Wm
de Putot, Sheriff of Glocester, 1222 to 1228, Warden of the Stan-
naries, Cornwall, and of the Bristol Coast; the other Petronilla mar-
ried Nicholas de Oxhaye.
SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS AS TO THE MARRIAGE OF
JAMES, VISCOUNT THURLES, AFTERWARDS DUKE OF
ORMONDE, AND THE LADY ELIZABETH PRESTON.
BY THE REV. JAMES GRAVES, A.B., M.R.I. A.
SINCE the printing of a Paper on the " Early Life and Marriage
of James, First Duke of Ormonde" in the "Journal" (vol. IV.,
new series, p. 276), the publication of the Calendar of the Irish
Patent and Close Rolls of Chancery enables me to give some fur-
ther particulars of the marriage of the Lady Elizabeth Preston
with Lord Thurles, fully confirmatory of Carte's statement that
the ceremony was far from being clandestine, and had the full con-
sent of King Charles the First.
On the death of her father, the Earl of Desmond, the King,
by his Letter, under the Privie Seal, to the Lord Deputy Falkland,
dated February 9th, 4 Chas. I. (1628), took under his special pro-
tection the Countess of Desmond, and her daughter and sole heir —
the Lady Elizabeth Preston ; and when the Countess died, another
Royal Letter was issued to the Lord Deputy, dated April 9th
following, which thus commences: —
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" We have, in our princely wisdom, considered in what misery and
distress the young Lady Elizabeth Preston is, by the unhappy death of
her parents, our faithful servant and dear cousin, Richard, Earl of Des-
mond, and the Lady Countess, his wife, likely to fall into and undergo ;
being young, and having somewhat an unsettled estate, and not many
friends to take care of her and her estate."
And then takes both the person and property of the orphan " unto
our princely protection and care." It would appear, from ano-
another Koyal Letter, dated April 30th, that there was some
difficulty in proving her age, and in making her a Ward of the
Crown; and, finally, there is on record a Royal Letter, dated
September 30th, in the same year, which supplies undoubted
evidence that the marriage took place with the full consent
of the Crown, for it was this Letter Patent which discharged
the bond of £1,000,000, which Walter, Earl of Ormond, had
been compelled by James I. to give to Preston, Earl of Des-
mond, and his wife, with forfeiture in case he refused to abide
by the Royal award, and which had been by Preston assigned over
to that King — the consideration of the said discharge being stated
in the following words : —
"We, graciously intending to make a marriage between James,
Viscount Thurles, grandchild and heir of the said Earl of Ormond and
Ossory, and the Lady Elizabeth Preston, daughter and heir of the late
Earl of Desmond and the Lady Elizabeth his wife; and we having, by
our Letters Patent, granted the custody of the body, and marriage, and
wardship of the lands of the Lady Preston to the Earl of Ormond and
Ossory."— See Morrin's " Calendar of the Patent and Close Rolls of Ire-
land," Charles I., pp. 435, 461, 467, and 499.
In the Evidence Chamber, at Kilkenny Castle, amongst the
Ormonde muniments is preserved the following " true copy " of
the Articles of Agreement between the parties, which preceded this
grant of the Crown : —
"Articles of Agreem* indented and made and concluded vpon the xxvith
day of August, Anno Doni 1629, and in the 5th yeare of the raigne of
or sou'aigne Lo. King Charles by the Grace of God &c, Befcweene
the right honorable Henry Earle of Holland, Edmond Earle of
Mulgrave, and the Lady Elizabeth Preston, daughter and heir of
Richard, late Earl of Desmond, and the Lady Elizabeth his wife,
sole daughter and heire of The late Earle of Ormond and Ossory,
deceased, of the one p'tie, and the right honorable Walter Ea. of
Ormond and Ossory, and James Lo. Vise. Thurles, grandchild and
heir apparent of the said Earle, of the other partie, in manner and
forme following : —
" Imprimis. — It is concluded and agreed vpon by and betweene the
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»aid p'ties to these prsents that for as much as neither the estate,
mano", and lands of the Earledome of Ormond and Ossory, nor of the
Lady Elizabeth Preston, her mano" and lands, accordinge to the true
intent of these following Articles, can be p'fected or settled but in
Ireland, that as well the office for entitling the Kinge to the Wardshipp
of the body and lands of the said Lady Elizabeth Preston, as the estate,
by the general feoffees shal be setled as soone as may be, or att the fur-
thest by the end of next Easter Terme, according to the advice of
learned Counsell; and that there shall in the meane time any assurance
be given for the solemnizing of the marriadge on the Lady Elizabeth's
behalfe wlh the Lo. Vise. Thurles before the first day of January next
ensueinge. And for the better eflectinge thereof, the said Earle of
Holland doth promise to procure his maties royall assent therevnto under
his maties signature and privie signet.
" It'm. — It is agreed &c. that all those mannori and lands conveyed
at the request of Queene Elizabeth by the said Thomas late Ea. of
Ormond and Ossory, to certaine ffeoffees and their heirs, to the use of
the said Lady Elizabeth, his daughter, late Countesse of Desmond, and
the heirs of her bodie begotten, shal bee settled on the said Lady Eliza-
beth Preston, and the heires of her body begotten, wth remaynders ac-
cordinge to the estate settled vpon her mother, the said late Countesse
of Desmond.
" It'm. — It is agreed &c. that all the mannors and lands awarded by
his late Matie Kinge Ja8 of Blessed memorie to the said late Countesse of
Desmond, and the heires of her bodie begotten, shal bee settled on the
Lady Elizabeth Preston, and the heires males of her body begotten, and
for want of such issue to the said Walter Ea. of Ormond and Ossorie, in
like manner as other remainders of the lands of the said Earledome of
Ormond and Ossorie are already limited and settled, onelie such lands are
to be excepted mentioned in his late Maties Letters, dated in February
1618, which are to be left accordinge to the tenor of the said Letter, or
sufficient proofe made of the p'ticular contents thereof by the said Earle
of Ormond and Ossorie, his heirs or assignes, if the said Lady Elizabeth
Preston, or some other p'son or p'sons for her cannot produce a Letter
vnder his late Mat'08 Royal signature countermaundinge the afforesaid
recited Letter.
;t It'm — It is agreed, &c., that the said Walter Ea. of Ormond and
Ossorie shall receave the whole rents and p'fits of the said Lady Elizabeth
Preston her lands, soe to be conveyed and setled as aforesaid, that here-
after shall grow due from tyme to tyme, vntill the said Lady Elizabeth
Preston comes to the adge of sixteen yeares, and then shee is to have and
receive the whole rents and p'fitts of the whole lands soe to be setled
vpon the said Lady Elizabeth Preston as aforesaid, quietly and peaseably,
and the said Lady Elizabeth Preston is to have and receave all arrearages
of rents now due to her owne use, the said Walter Ea. of Ormonde and
Ossorie payinge for the maintenance of the said James Lo. Vise. Thurles,
and the said Lady Elizabeth Preston seven hundred pounds of lawfull
money of England $ aiio yearely ; and if the said James Vise. Thurles
shall happen to die wthin that tyme, then the said Lady Elizabeth Pres-
ton shall have that full allowance to her selfe duringe all the tyme shee
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is vnder the said adge of sixteen yeares, the said some of TOO11 to bee paid
halfe yearely by equall porcons, and the first paim* thereof to begin and
made out of the rents to grow due att Michaelmas next.
" It'm. — It is agreed, &c., that if the said Lady Elizabeth Preston
have noe heire male of her body begotten lieving at the time of her death,
then such daughters as shee shall have, as well by the said Lo. Vise.
Thurles as by any other husband, shall receive their porcons out of the
saide Lady Elizabeth's first mentioned estate and lands whch shee hath by
descent from her saide Mother, the saide Countesse of Desmond, and they
shall equally inherit that land betweene them. And if the said Lady
Elizabeth have heires males of hir body begotten by the said James
Vise. Thurles, then her own estate and lands afforementioned, and alsoe
the lands awarded by his late Matie vnto the saide Countesse of Desmond
and the heires of hir body, wch are to be setled on the said Lady Elizabeth
Preston & the heires males of hir body begotten, as in the aforesaid third
article is mentioned, shalbe alike and equally lyable wth the said Lady
Elizabeth Preston's lands for porcons of such daughters as the said
Lady Elizabeth shall have by the said Lo. Vise. Thurles, together with
such lands of the said Earledome of Ormond and Ossorie as shalbee setled
on the said James Lo. Vise. Thurles : but if the said Lady Elizabeth
Preston shall have an heire male and a daughter or daughters by any
other husband, that then the Lady Elizabeth Preston her owne lands,
and the said lands awarded to the said late Countesse of Desmond, shalbee
onely lyable to the said Lady Elizabeth Preston her last mentioned
daughter's porcons, and if shee have but one daughter, shee to have 300011
currant money of England for her said daughter's porcons, and if shee
shall have more daughters, two thousand pounds of like money a peece
when they shall attaine to the sevrall adges of fourteene yeares.
" It' in. — It is agreed, &c., that all mannrs lordshipps and lands wch came
any way to the said Walter Ea. of Ormond and Ossory from the said
Tho. late Earle of Ormond and Ossorie or his feoffees, and whch were not
awarded by his Matie vnto the said late Countesse of Desmond and the
heires of her body begotten as afforesaide shalbee setled to the vse of the
said now Earle of Ormond and Ossory for life wthout impeachm* of wast,
wth power to make leases of one and twenty yeares or three lives, reserv-
ing the rents now accustomed for the said lands or more, and after to
the vse of the said James Vise. Thurles for his life in like manner, the
remainder to the vse of the first begotten sonn of the said James Vise.
Thurles and his heires males of his bodie begotten, wth like remaindrs to ten
other of the said James Vise. Thurles his sonns begotten successively one
after another, and to the heires males of theire severall bodyes begotten,
and for want of such issue the remaindor to the heires males of the hody
of the said Walter Ea. of Ormond and Ossory, with other remaindo" over
accordinge to the intailes of the Earledome of Ormond and Ossorie made
by the said Thomas late Earle of Ormond and Ossorie.
*4 It'm. — It is agreed, &c., that all the lands formerly assured to the
now Countesse of Ormond for iointure, as well such as were awarded to
the said Countesse of Desmond, as other now in the said Walter Ea. of
Ormond and Ossory his possession, shalbee setled on the said Countesse
of Ormond duringe her life if shee survive the said Walter Earle of
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Ormonde and Ossory, the revrsion thereof to bee conveyed as the lands of
the Earledome of Ormonde and Ossorie [are] to be conveyed as afore-
«« It'm. Its agreed, &c., that all those manors and lands wch were the
said Walter Ea. of Ormond and Ossorie his fathers, and wch have been by
the said Earle purchased of others other than from Thomas late Earle of
Ormond and Ossorie his ffeoffees, and likewise all these lands wch were
left to the said Walter Earle of Ormond and Ossorie by the said late
Matie* award, are to be left wholy in the disposicon of the said Walter
Ea. of Ormond and Ossorie for provision of the Lady Elizabeth and the
Lady Eleanor his daughters their porcon, beinge unmarryed, and for the
remainder of the porcon of the Lady Mary and other of the said Earle of
Ormonds daughters already married, and for porcons for the said Lo.
Vise. Thurles his sisters and younger brethern as he shall see cause.
" Itm. — It is agreed, &c., that out of the estates Manors and lands of
the said Earldome of Ormond and Ossory to be settled as aforesaid in the
said James Vise. Thurles and the heires males of his body begotten,
there shalbe p'sently vppon the setlinge thereof conveyed to the said
James Vise, of Thurles for his maintenance during the said Earle of
Ormond and Ossory his life, and for the iointure of the said Lady Eliza-
beth Preston, out of that estate, one thousand Markes p Ann. currant
moneys in England, but the said James L. Vise. Thurles is not to re-
ceive any p'te of the 1000 markes vntill midsomer 1632 and if the said
James Vise. Thurles dye the said Walter Ea : of Ormond and Ossory
liveinge, the said Lady Elizabeth Preston is not to have any of the said
1000 markes to bee conveyed unto her for iointure vntill after the said
Walter Earl of Ormond and Ossorie his death : and if the now Countesse
of Ormond out live the said now Earle hir husband then the said Lady
Elizabeth Preston is, duringe, the life of the said Countesse, to have but
500 markes a yeare of like money of the said 1000 markes.
" Itm. — It is agreed, &c., that the said Lady Elizabeth Preston her
ffeoffees, if there be any after setlinge of the estate of the Earldome of
Ormond and Ossory, shall at the request of the said Walter Ea. of Or-
mond and Ossory make leases of hir lands for one and twenty yeares vpon
improved rents w^out fine, such lands not beinge in Lease allready nor
belonginge demeasnes to any of the said Lady Elizabeth Preston her
chief houses of Kilkenny, Callan and Donmore, but the said Ea. of Or-
mond and Ossory not to ioine therein.
"Itm. — It is agreed, &c., that the said Walter Ea. of Ormond and
Ossory, the debt of fifteene thousand pounds being paid to the said
Henry Earle of Holland, shall settle the whole tithes and alltrages wch
he holds in Ireland for diulse yeares yet to come, the reu?sion in the
Crowne, vpon the said James Vise. Thurles, as the inanor9 and lands of
the said Earldome of Ormond and Ossorie are now settled vpon the said
Walter Earl of Ormond and Ossory.
" Itm.— It is agreed, &c., that the said Walter Earle of Ormond and
Ossory shall not medle or receave in his possession any of the goods
chatties or household stuffs that was the said late Earle and Countesse
of Desmond in either England or Ireland, but leave them wholy to the
said Lady Elizabeth Preston and such as shee shall appoint either for
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paim* of debts or otherwise as shee in honor shall thinke good to dispose
of them, and that the goods and catties, whereof the said late Earle of
Desmond died possest of, shall not be removed of or from the houses or
lands where the same were kept untill the first day of December next.
"It'm. — It is agreed, &c., that the Castle towne and lands of Dane-
fort, and the lands of Bennetts Bridge wth all the Mills and appurte-
nances therevnto belonginge in the County of Kilkenny wthin the said
realme of Ireland, wch are demised by the said Walter Ea. of Ormond and
Ossory, Ja. Vise. Thurles, the said Lady Elizabeth Preston, and Ed.
Comerford, Survivenge feoffees of the said Earle, vnto Patricke Weymes
and Richard Christy Gentlemen, the said Richard late Ea. of Desmond
his sisters sonnes, and couzin germen to the said Lady Elizabeth Preston,
and their assigns, for the tearme of one and twenty yeares to begin at
Easter next, yielding therefore yearly vnto the said Walter Earle of
Ormond and Ossory and his heires, for the two first yeares of the said
tearme of one and twentie yeares, the sum of one hundred pounds of
lawfull money of and in England att the feasts of Michas and Easter or
wthin twenty one dayes half yearely, and alsoe yeldinge therefore yearely,
for the residue of the said Tearme of one and twenty yeares, one paire of
Gloves price xxs. vnto the said Lady Elizabeth Preston and the heires
males of her body begotten, att the feast of Michas yearely, if the same
bee lawfully demanded, shalbee enioyed by the said Patricke Weymes
and Richard Christy and theire assigns for and during the said tearme of
one and twenty yeares any thinge herein contayned to the contrary there-
of in any notwthstandinge.
" In witnes whereof the p'ties first theire mentioned to theis articles
of agrem1 have interchangeably put their hands and scales, the day and
yeare above written.
" WALTER ORMOND and OSSORIE.
" JAMES THURLES.
" WM- FAIRFAX.
" CHR. DARCY.
" Signed and delivered by the within named
Walter Ea. of Ormond Ossory, and James Vise. Thurles
in p'sence of us,
ED. SHEFFIELD,
RICHARD HODSON,
PAT. WEYMES,
WM SMITH,
WM CORKE."
" Copia Vera."
It may be interesting to remark that eight years previously^
viz., in April, 1621, and before the death of Preston, Earl of
Desmond, a marriage was thought of, and articles of agree-
ment drawn up to secure it, between the Lady Elizabeth Preston,
and Lord Thurles, the Earl of Ormonde's grandson. A draft
of this agreement remains in the Evidence Chamber, at Kil-
3i
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kcnny Castle, whereby it was arranged (April 2nd, 1621), be-
tween Walter Earl of Ormonde, and Richard Earl of Preston
and the Lady Elizabeth, his wife, that their daughter and
heir should marry James, Viscount Thurles, "if he shall con-
sent thereunto," with proviso that if the latter died the Lady
Elizabeth Preston should marry John Butler, next brother to
Lord Thurles, " should he thereunto consent," and so also as to
the Viscount's next younger brother, Richard. The estates, &c. of
both the contracting parties to be settled on the heirs males of the
said marriage, with a life use to the contracting parties, and re-
mainders " acconlinge to ancient entayle of the house of Ormond."
And finally the Earl of Desmond, on the Earl of Ormond's ful-
filling the conditions of the agreement, promises to procure from
the king the discharge of the bond1 in which the Earl of Ormonde
was bound to submit to the Royal award.
This treaty of 1621 came to nothing, and there is a Paper at
Kikenny Castle, drawn upon the part of Walter Earl of Ormonde,
to show that the fault was net on his side, the unwillingness
to complete the arrangement being entirely on the part of the
Earl and Countess of Desmond. The parties were but children at
this time, but must have even then known each other well, as this
document states that, about July, 1621, —
" There having beene severall things as tokens of love delivred mu-
tually betweene the Lord Thurles and the younge Ladye, the Countesse
of Desmond, wthin lesse than tenn days after, tooke those that the Lord
had and sent back those that the younge Lady had."
The last paragraph in the Agreement3 of 1629 gives very
interesting information as to the close relationship between Patrick
Wemys (ancestor to Otway O'Connor Wemys, Esq., of Danes-
fort, County Kilkenny) and the Lady Elizabeth Preston, after-
wards Duchess of Ormonde. Dunfert (called Danefort in the
Agreement, and now further corrupted into Danesfort) was an
ancient castle and manor of the Ormonde family. The castle is
modernised, and forms part of the present house.
1 By an oversight the amount of the should read " September 3rd."
bond extorted from Walter Earl of Or- 2This agreement was perfected; it
monde was, at p. 333, supra, given as is enrolled in Chancery. See Morrin's
€1,000,000, instead of £100,000, and "Calendar of the Patent and Close
in the same page » September 30th," Rolls," Chas. L, p. 648.
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ANCIENT UagS AND
THE FEE-BOOK OF A PHYSICIAN OF THE SEVENTEENTH
CENTURY.
BY MAURICE LENIHAN, ESQ., M. R. I. A., AUTHOR OF THE "HISTORY
OF LIMERICK," ETC. ETC.
(Continued from p. 176.)
Anno Dni 1633
£ s. d.
" Sr Johannes Cloth worthey p'dictus p sua Dna 25° Martij, 04 00 0
" Dris Dillon de Kilkenny West p'dictus 26° Martij, ... 03 00 0
''John Moore de Crokane p uxore 27° Martij, 01 00 0
" Edwardus Johannis Arthurius p'dictus 28° Martij, . . . 00 1 1 0
" Mr Brent Moore 29° Martij, 00 11 0
" Matrona Baggott p'dicta 30° Martij, 00 10 0
" Johannes Moore p'dictus p eadem uxore 31° Martij, . . 01 00 0
" Quida e rure veniens 1° Aprilis, 00 3 0
" Matrona /"leining assidua Cariuaria eaq> uenenata nimiu af-
flicta 1° Aprilis, 00 10 0
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" Thomas Arthurius Johannis p'dict 3° Aprilis, .... 00 10 0
" Bernardus Corkraine 3° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Mr Nugent p'dictus p filio 4° Aprilis, 00 10 0
u Dila Parsons p'dicta p filio Johanne p'dicto 6° April, . . 01 00 0
" Matrona Baggott p'dicta 8° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Comes Antrim praedictus 10° Aprilis, 05 00 0
" Bernardus Corkraine p'dictus, 12° Aprilis, 00 10 0
"Johannes Moore p'dictus p eadem uxore 13° Aprilis, . . 01 00 0
" Bernardus Corkraine p'dictus 15° Aprilis, 00 10 0
" Mr Richardus Blaney in hecticam vergens 19° Aprilis, . . 02 00 0
" Talbott de Atherdie 21° Aprilis, 00 5 0
" Thomas /leming de Creuagh 21° Aprilis, ...... 01 00 0
" Sr Jacobus Moore Arquato nigro \ cachexia grauiter la-
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" Sr Anthonius Brabazon p'dictus in Hecticam vergens 28°
Aprilis, 01 00 0
"Decanus Colombe p'dictus p eadem uxore 1° Maij, . . . 00 10 0
" Bernardus Corkraine p'dictus 2° Maij, 00 10 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus 3° Maij, 00 10 0
" Decanus Columbe p'dictus 4° Maij, ........ 00 10 0
" Adrianus Bott belga 5° Maij, 00 5 0
" Decanus Columbe p'dict p eade 5° Maij, 00 10 0
" Gerraldus Nugent 6° Maij, 00 3 0
" Sr Guilielimus Vssher senior p'dictus 6° Maij, .... 01 00 0
"Johannes Greinham p'dictus 7° Maij, 00 5 0
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' Josephus Ware pro vxore 11° Maij, 00 10 0
* Dfis de Baltinglas p'dictus p filio Carolo 12° Maij, . . . 01 00
* Dfia Parsons p'dicta p coquo suo 13° Maij, 00 10 0
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"Josephus Ware p dicta uxore 14° Maij, 00 10 0
« Ricluirdus Blaney p'dictus 15° Maij, 02 00 0
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Leticia1 Clothworthey virgo 23° Maij, 01 10
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Patritius Morrish 24 Maij, 01 4
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apud Ballinsaggart 30° Maij, 20 00 0
" Dna Blaney senior 1° Juriij, 01 00
" Dna Blaney iunior 2° Junij, ... 00 11 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus 3° Junij, 00 10 0
" Dna Dillon de Costilogallen p'dicta 4° Junij, 01 00 0
"Mr Georgius lladcleefe p'dictus 5° Junij 00 10 0
"Diia Dillon2 de Costilogallen p'dicta 6° Junij, .... 01 00 0
44 Thomas Arthurius Johannis p'dictus p uxore 7° Junij, . 00 10 0
" Mr Raymonds p uxore 8° Junij, 00 10 0
"Sr Robertus/uord p'dictus p sua Bna 9° Junij, . . • . 00 11 0
"Mr Panthin mercator 10° Junij, 00 10 0
" Dna Parsons p'dicta 11° Junij, 00 1 1 0
" Dua/ortescue p liliola 12° Junij, 01 00 0
" Georgius Andrewes pseudo Decanus Linlicensis p'd. 14°
Junij, 00 6 0
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" Adam Loftus3 Vicecomes de Ely Cancellarius 23° Junij, . 01 2 0
1 Leticia was a family name of the ward Loftus of Swineshead, county
Skeffingtons, who formed an alliance York, and nephew of the Rev. Adam,
with the Clotworthy family. Sir John Lofthouse, who, as private chaplain,
Clotworthy was elevated to the peer- accompanied the Viceroy, Thomas Earl
age of Ireland by Charles II., Nov. 21, of Sussex, to Ireland, and was conse-
KMJO, as Baron of Lough Neagh and crated Archbishop of Armagh, 20th
Viscount Massarene. January, 1562-3 ; translated to Dublin
2 This lady was the Lady Mary Mac as Archbishop in August, 1567, and in
Donnell, third daughter of Randal, first six years afterwards was Keeper of the
Earl of Antrim, who married, at the Great Seal ; having been constituted
age of 15 years, Lucas, second Viscount Lord High Chancellor of Ireland in
Dillon, who died in 1629, leaving an 15J8. Dr. Arthur's patient was an emi-
ouly son, Theobald, as his successor. nent lawyer, was appointed Lord Chan-
Costilogallen, Co. Sligo, is still the resi- cellor of Ireland in 1619, and created,
dence of Viscount Dillon. in 1622, Viscount Loftus of Elye, a
3 This was Adam Loftus, the son of dignity which expired with his lord-
Robert Loftus, and grandson of Ed- ship's grandson Arthur, third Viscount,
241
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< Edwardus Johannis Arthurius pMictus p uxore 24° Junij, 00 10 0
" Dna Baltinglas p' dicta p filia Maria Roper 25° Junij, . . 00 10 0
"Doctor Robertus Yssher p'dictus 26° Junij, 00 10 0
" Matrona Shepheard 27° Junij, 00 10 0
u Eadem 28° Junij, 00 10 0
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" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus p uxore 30° Junij, . . . 00 10 0
*' Idem pro eadem 1° Julij, 00 10 0
"Georgius Andrewes p'dictus pseudo Decanus 2° Julij, . . 00 10 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p uxore p'dicta 4° Julij, . . . 00 10 0
"Ancilla Cooperi 3° Julij, 00 05 0
uMr Georgius Radcleefe p uxore p'dicta 3° Julij, . ... 00 10 0
" Dna de Baltinglas p'dicta 5° Julij, 00 10 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p uxore p'dicta 6° Julij, .... 01 00 0
" Mr Paulus Davys £ uxore Margarita Vssher p'dicta 8°
Julij, 02 00 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p uxore p'dicta 9° Julij, .... 01 00 0
" Mr Paulus Davys p'dicta p uxore 10° Julij, 1 00 0
"Mr Comerfoord 11° Julij, 01 00 0
" Mr Dalton 12° Julij, 00 10 0
"Mp Paulus Davys p uxore p'dicta 14° Julij, 01 00 0
" Mr Comerfoord iuuenis p'dictus 16° Julij, 00 10 0
" Parson Bradey Ultoniensis 18° July, 00 11 0
" M1 Phillippus Perciual g Edmundo Smyth p'dicto 19° Julij, 0010 0
" Mr Comerfoord juvenis p'dictus 20 Julij, 00 11 0
" Queedam generosa mulier ruri degens 21° Julij, .... 00 10 0
" Sr Basilius Brookes1 de Ultonia cui, ixpvpta, a crasso hu-
more ceruicem vesicse obturante oborta, laboranti,temera-
rius quida medicus cantbarides sumendas p'scripserat,
quaru malignante t acrimonia sphyncter vesicle infla-
matus t exesus est, necn5 totus penis Ductus comunis
sceptica vi medicamenti putredine consumptus est, tan-
dem/ebre t cruciatibus intollerabilibus interiit, me ac-
cessiuit 24° Julij, que, instituta pgnosi de repentino
obitu, comonui ut saluti animse pspiceret, ac rebus suis
disponendis quam citius consulerat, sorti suas comisi, . 01 00 0
" Christopherus Wandesfoord3 magister Rotuloru 26° Julij, 00 10 0
" Diia Parsons p'dicta 28 Julij, 00 10 0
who died 6th Nov. 1725, without leav- Governor of the town and castle of
ing male issue, when his Monasterevan Donegal, and being one of the Corn-
estate passed to his only daughter missioners for the settlement of Ulster,
Jane's son (by Charles, Lord Moore), obtained from the Crown large grants
Henry, Fourth Earl of Drogheda. The of land in Donegal. Sir Victor Alex-
title was revived in Nicholas Loftus, ander Brooke, of Cole-Brook, county
Esq., M. P. for Wexford county, a de- Fermanagh, is the descendant of the
scendant of Edward Loftus's second son above Sir Basil, and s. his father 21st
Adam, who on the 5th Oct., 1761, was Nov. 1854.
created Baron Loftus of Loftus Hall, 2 Sir Christopher Wandesforde pur-
and in 1756, Viscount Loftus of Ely. chased from the Earl of Ormonde the
1 Sir Basil Brooke came over to Ire- territory of Ui Duach, or Idough, in
land, temp. Elizae., and serving under the county of Kilkenny, and settled
Lord Mount) oy in Ulster, was appointed there.
242
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August!, 01 00 0
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"Matrona Phoebe Vssher p'dicta 6° Augusti, 01 00 0
" Jacobus Duff p'dictus nephriticus 7° Augusti, .... 00 10
" Johannes Hoyss pro uxore 8° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Georgius Bodley p'dictus p uxore 9° Augusti, .... 00 11 0
" Johannes /leming p uxore p' dicta cariuaria contumacia 1
molestissima laborante 10° Augusti, 00 10 0
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" Idem p eadem 12° Augusti, 00 10 0
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"Thomas Skyddy1 actor negociorii, pro Edmundo Barrij 14°
Augusti, 01 00 0
"Matrona Bukcurstp filia p'dicta 16° Augusti, .... 00 10 0
"Johannes Fleming p p'dicta uxore 18° Augusti, ... 00 10 0
" Diis Carolus Vicecomes Moore2 p uxore variolis objessa
190 A 03 00 0
" Daniel o Neijle p uxore sua relicta quonda Georgii Sexten
qua febris a plethora oborta 6°. die qua ad earn accessi
suffocavit 18° Augusti, 04 00 0
" Sir Henricus Pyers p filio variolis dolente 22° Augusti, . 01 00 0
"Jacobus Duff p'dictus 23° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Sr Henricus Pyers p'dicto filio 24° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Mr Leynham p amico 24° Augusti, 00 4 0
" Dfis. Baro Digbey p sua Dfia iam mortua 25° Augusti, . 03 00 0
" Sir Guilielimus Parsons p'dictus 27° Augusti, .... 01 00 0
" Johannes Latina p'dictus 28° Augusti, 00 10 0
" Comes Westmedise 29° Augusti, 01 00 0
" Sir Donogh Mc Carty primo genitus Vicecomitis de Mus-
crey3 febre detentus 30° Augusti, 01 00 0
"Idem 31° Augusti, 00 10 0
u Dili de Kyrye vidua 1° Septembris, 00 1 1 0
" Sir Donnogh Mc Carty p'dictus 2° Septernbris, .... 01 00 0
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" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus p uxore 4° Septembris, . 01 00 0
" Idem pro eadem 5° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Carolus Carty dns de Muscry 6° Septembris, . . . . 00 10 0
1 The Skyddy family occupied the Loftus, Viscount Ely, and was s. by his
position of mayors at several periods in eldest son, Henry, who was created Earl
Cork. The real name of Skyddy is of Drogheda 14th June, 1661.
Scudamore, or Scutamore. 3 The MacCarthys, ancient Irish lords
* This nobleman was second Vis- of Muskerry, were made Peers of Par-
count, and was killed at Pole Castle, liament in the year 1628. by the title of
county Meath, 15th August, 1643, in Viscount Muskerry. The present Earl
the service of Charles I. He married of Clancarty is descended by the female
Alice, youngest daughter of Sir Adam line from the first Lord Muskerry.
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" Johannes Hoy ss p p' dicta uxore 8° Septembris, .... 01 00 0
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"Mr Georgius Radcleefe p eadem uxore 10° Septembris, . 01 00 0
"Thomas Ley Scriba p'dictus 11° Septembris, 00 11 0
" Gualterus Bodley p'dictus 12° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p eadem uxore 13° Septembris, . 01 00 0
"Jacobus Duff p'dictus p filio 14° Septeb 00 5 0
"Matrona Plunkett p'dicta 14° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p eadem uxore 15° Septembris, . 01 00 0
" Matrona Plunkett p'dicta 16° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Sr Jacobus Moore p'dictus p uxore 17° Septembris, . . 01 00 0
"Dna Parsons p'dicta p famulo 18° Septembris, .... 00 10 0
" Dns Muereryh Bourk Vice Comes de Maio1 p primogenito
20° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Matrona Plunkett p'dicta 22° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Thomas /leming de Creuagh p'dictus 23° Septembris, . . 0011 0
" Mr Christophorus Windesfourd p'dictus 25° Septembris, . 00 10 0
" Idem 26° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Idem 27° Septembris, 00 10 0
" Idem 28° Septembris, 00 10 0
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" Mr Cristophorus Windesfourd p'dictus 30° Septembris, . 0010 0
" Idem 1° Octobris, 00 10 0
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" Mr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus p filio Thoma 2° Octobris, 01 00 0
** Christopherus Wandesfourd p'dictus 3° Octobris, ... 00 10 0
" Mr Rogerus 0 Moroh alias Hoore* 4° Octobris, .... 01 00 0
" Andreas Babe de Atherdie 5° Octobris, 02 06 0
"Matrona Sara Buckcurst p filia p'dicta 6° Octobris, . . 01 00 0
" Mr Anderson pro uxore 7° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Dna Wentworth p ancilla honoraria Brigita 8° Octobris, . 01 00 0
1 Sir Myles Bourke, second Viscount with the eighth Viscount in 1767.
Mayo, who took his seat in Parliament, 4 2 The far-famed Rory, or Roger,
November, 1634, and (according to Arch- O' Moore, who figured so prominently
dall's "Lodge," vol. iv., p. 238), being a in the times immediately succeeding
Protestant, was, on the breaking out of these, and whose exploits nil a remark-
the rebellion, appointed by the State, able page in Irish history. It is rather
with Thomas Viscount Dillon, joint Go- a curious state of facts that Dr. Thomas
vernor of the county of Mayo, and had Arthur appears to have been brought
a commission for the suppression of the face to face, oftentimes in the same
outbreak, and the preservation of all His week, with the most pronounced "na-
Majesty's loyal subjects in those parts. tionalists" of his day, and with the most
He afterwards forsook the Protestant unquestionable representatives of the
religion, and Archdall's, loc. cit,, de- English interest in Ireland. He ad-
votes a considerable amount of matter to hered earnestly, no doubt, to his reli-
show by what steps he abandoned Pro- gious convictions, but his knowledge
testantism, and how far he was instru- of men and manners kept him clear of
mental in the rebellion. The title was politics, and enabled him to make friends
created in 1627, and ceased to exist on both sides.
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" Mr Carr amanuensis pro regis 10° Octobris, 00 10 0
"Richardus Talbot de Malahoyde p'dictus p uxore 12° Oc-
tobris, 01 00 0
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" Guilielimus Brabazon Comes Midiae1 p'dictus 14° Octobris, 01 00 0
"Mr Leake p uxore p'dicta 15° Octobris, 01 00 0
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"Eadem 19° Octobris, 01 00 0
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" Matrona Anna Pyers p'dicta 21° Octobris, 00 10 0
" Quida piscator de Mallahoyde 22° Octobris, 00 5 0
" Sir Thomas Butler p filio 23° Octobris, 01 00 0
" Mr Richardus Parsons pro uxore 25° Octobris, .... 01 00 0
" Thomas Lye p'dictus 26° Octobris, ........ 01 00 0
" Mr Alderson p'dictus p eade uxore 27° Octobris, . . . 00 10 0
" Dudleus Bosswell studiosus cui ex improuiso fragmentu
confracti vitrei in occulum irrueus coronea tunica dis-
cutit, unde humor aquaeus affluxit, eumo^ mox vitreus t
cristialinus humores subsequiti sunt et tanta oborta fuit
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"Dudleus Boswell p'dictus 31° Octobris, 00 10 0
"Richardus Talbott p'dictus 31° Octobris, 00 5 0
" Sr Georgius Radcleefe p'dictus 1° Novembris, .... 00 10 0
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" Alexander Gordoun 3° Novembris, 00 11 0
" Doudleus Boswell p'dictus 4° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Johanes Gould2 de Corcagia 4° Novembris, 00 10 6
" Dudley Boswell p'dictus 5° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Sr Thomas Dutton p uxore p'dicta 6° Novembris, ... 00 10 0
" Johannes Gould p'dictus Corcagiensis 7° Novembris, . . 00 10 0
" Thomas Bennett dissentericus 7° Novembris 01000
" Richardus Talbott p'dictus 8° Novembris, 00 5 6
" Matrona Maddine 8° Novembris, 01 00 0
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1 This was William Brabazon, second Right Hon. Sir John Bingly, Knt., and
Baron of Meath, who was created, 16th was *. in 1651, by his only son, Ed-
April, 1627, Earl of Meath, with re- ward, second Earl,
mainder in default of direct male issue 2 The Goulds of Cork, an ancient fa-
to his brother, Sir Anthony Brabazon, mily connected with that city, are
rtife ^ale heir,S* His LordshiP »• stated, by Smith, the Historian of Cork,
in 1G07, Jane, eldest daughter of the to be of Danish descent
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41 Mr Windebank 10° Novembris, 00 10 1
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' Dna Clothworthey £ filia Letitia 16° Novemb 07 00 0
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" Doctor Robertus Yssher p'dictus 17° Novembris, . . . 00 10 0
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"Sir Georgius Eadcleefe p'dictus 21° Novembris, . ... 00 10 0
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" Sir Kobertus King p'dictus p uxore p'dicta 26° Novem. . 01 00 0
" Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 27° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Dudleus Boswell p'dictus 27° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 28° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Matrona Nugent p'dicta Novembris, 01 02 0
" Dudleus Boswell p'dictus 29° Novembris, 00 10 0
" Dna Vicecomitissa Wentworth pro filia Proregis Arabella
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" Dna Wentworth p filia p'dicta 5° Decembris, . . . . 01 00 0
" Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 6° Decembris, 00 10 0
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" Uxor pseudo decan. Colume p'dicti 7° Decembris, . . . 00 10 0
" Catherina Tumor uxor Nicholaii Plunkett 7° Decemb. . 00 11 0
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Dudleus Boswell p'dictus 8° Deer.,
Dna Parsons p'dicta p Nepte Gennetta 9° Der. .
Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 9° Decembris 9° Deer, (sic],
Uxor pseudo Decan. Colume p'dicta 10° Decembris,
Sir Rcgerus O'Shaghneshy 10° Decembris, ....
Dudleus Boswell p'dictus 11° Decembris,
Quidfi Sutor pro filio 12° Decembris
Uxor Decan. Columbe p'dicta 13° Decembris, . . .
Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 14° Decembris,
Mr Johannes Hoyesse p'dictus p p'dicta uxore 15° Dec.
Johannes Carbrey p filio 16° Decembris,
Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 17° Decembris,
Mr Aylmer1 iuris peritus 18° Decembris,
Dna Roberti Loftus 21° Decem.,
Sir Roger 0 Sheaghnessey3 p'dictus 23° Dec. . . .
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1 The Aylmer family, of whom we
shall have more to say as we proceed,
distinguished themselves highly in the
profession of the law in Ireland. Sir
Gerald Aylmer, Knt, of Dullardstown,
county Meath, second son of Bartho-
lomew Aylmer, Esq., of Lyons, county
Kildare, by his wife, Margaret Chivers,
rose to great eminence in the legal pro-
fession, and was constituted one of the
Justices of the Court of Common Pleas
in 1532, from which he was removed
to the presidency of the Court of Ex-
chequer; and in 1535, he returned as
Chief Justice to the former Court. It
was Sir Gerald Aylmer who earnestly
recommended Henry VIII. to compel
the owners of Irish estates to reside at
home, and induced the Act of Absen-
tees to be enacted — a measure the revi-
val of which at the present period would
be a very popular movement on the
part of Her Majesty, Her Ministers,
and the Imperial Parliament.
2 Sir Roger O'Shaughnesey was the
son of Dermot, who died in 1606, seised
of the territory of Kinalea, alias
O'Shaughnesey country, leaving Roger,
otherwise Gilleduff (then aged twenty-
three years, and married), his heir, and
Shyly-Nyn Hubert his widow. Sir Ro-
ger, the younger, was distinguished by
his humanity during the struggle of
1641. A characteristic portrait, with a
flowing red beard, extant at Kilkenny
Castle, preserves the memory of his
personal appearance. This was a noble
Irish family of the Heremonian line, and
was from the earliest period connected
with the old natives of Gal way. In 1648,
it was ordered in a by-law of the Cor-
poration of the city "that Lieut.-Col.
William O'Shaughnessie (in considera-
tion of his allyance in bloode to the whole
towne, and for the goodnature and affec-
tion he and his whole family doe bear to
it) and his posteritie shall be hereafter
freemen of this Corporation ;" Sir Der-
mot, the son of Roger, died in 1673,
leaving by his wife, the daughter of
Lord Barry, Roger, who in 1688 mar-
ried Helen, the daughter of Conor
O'Bryen, Lord Viscount Clare. Having
returned home sick after the battle of
the Boyne, he died in his ancestral Cas-
tle of Gort, on the llth of July, 1690.
He was attainted on llth May, 1697;
and King William granted all his
estates (which were declared forfeited)
in custodiam to Gustavus the first Baron
Hamilton; but he soon after having
obtained a grant of other lands, the
King, by Letter Patent, 19th June 1697,
granted to Thomas (afterwards Sir
Thomas) Prendergast, " in considera-
tion of his good and acceptable services,
all the estate real and personal of Ro-
ger O'Shaughnessie, Esq., deceased, in
Gort-Inchigorie, and several other lands
in the barony of Kiltartan, and county
of Galway. Colonel William O'Shaugh-
nessie, the heir of Roger, the last pos-
sessor, having died in exile in France,
in 1744, was succeeded by his cousin,
germain, then Roman Catholic Bishop
of Ossory, who instituted proceedings
at law against Sir Thomas Prender-
gast, the sou of the patentee, for the re-
247
" Josephus Ware p vxore 2° Januarij,
*' Idem p eadem 4° Januarij,
" Mr Jackson iuris peritus 6° Januarij,
'Josephus Ware p'dictus p eadem 8° Januarij, . . . .
' Mr Jackson iurisperitus p'dictus 10° Januarij, ....
* Mr Leake p se et uxore 12° Januarij,
' Bichardus Talbott p'dictus 14° Januarij,
' Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 20° Januarij,
" Dna Roberti King p'dicta 2 februarij,
" MrEdwardus Boulton Sollicitor regius $ filio 4° februarij,
" Richardus Talbott p'dictus p filio Johanne 6° februarij, .
"Matrona West 7° februarij,
" Richardus Blaney p'dictus 9° februarij,
" Daniel o Neille p'dictus 12° februarij,
" Bernardus o Corkraine p'dictus 14° februarij, ....
" Sir Jacobus Moore p'dictus 16° februarij,
"/amulus Richardi Talboti p'dicti 17° februarij, . . . .
" Sir Jacobus Moore p'dictus 18° februarij,
" Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 21° februarij,
11 Edwardus Boulthon p'dictus p'filio Nicholao 23° febv.
" Jacobus /awle1 Cassilliensis iuris peritus 24° februarij,
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co very of the estate of Gort. Accord-
ing to Hardiman ("Hist. Gal.") "these
proceedings were continued after the
bishop's decease by his next relative,
Roebuck, and after his death by Joseph
O'Shaughnessy, his son, who, having
to contend against wealth and power
without the aid of either, was ulti-
mately defeated ; and thus ended one
of the most ancient and respectable
aboriginal families of Ireland." It is
said that Bishop O'Shaughnessy of Kil-
laloe,'and Dean O'Shaughnessy, of Ennis,
in the same diocese, were descendants of
the O'Shaughnessys of Gort. Several
brothers of Dean O'Shaughnessy set-
tled in Limerick, and lived to very ad-
vanced ages. Sir William (O'Shaugh-
nessy) Brooke, of the late East India
Company's Service, and the projector of
the telegraphic system throughout In-
dia, a gentleman of great mental en-
dowments and capacity, is son of the
late Captain Daniel Sandes, otherwise
O'Shaughnessy, who assumed the name
of Sandes in obedience to the wish of a
maternal uncle of the name of M°Mahon,
who realised a large property in India
under the patronage of Sir Philip
Francis, which he promised to bequeath
to Captain Sandes, and his brother Dr.
Sandes, who was attendant physician of
the County of Limerick Infirmary. Sir
William (O'Shaughnessy) Brooke's mo-
ther was first cousin of Major- General
Brooke, of the East India Company's
Service. The living members of the
ancient family of the Gort O'Shaugh-
nessys are James O'Shaughnessy, Esq.,
Solicitor, of Dublin ; Francis O'Shaugh-
nessy, Esq., of London; John O'Shaugh-
nessy, Esq., of Limerick ; Dr. Richard
O'Shaughnessy, of London (late in the
E.I. S.); James O'Shaughnessy, Esq.,
Liverpool. The present much-esteemed,
and highly-accomplished Standish Pren-
dergast Vereker, fourth Viscount Gort,
is a descendant of Sir Thomas Prender-
gast, and grandson of the "Hero of
Colloony," who first obtained the title
of Gort. The Gort property passed into
the hands, by purchase, of the late F. M.
Viscount Gough, whose only son, George
Stephens Gough, M. A., D. L., Co. Tip-
perary, the second Viscount, now re-
sides at Loughcooter Castle, Gort, which
magnificent residence was built near
Cooter lake by the second Lord Gort.
Jacobus Sawle. — The Saules, or
Sauls, were of one of the most ancient of
the Anglo-Norman families connected
with the city of Cashel ; their monu-
ment of carved marble, in the ancient
Cathedral of Cashel, is dated 1574; it
bears the motto LAVS DEO ; and
over the shield on which the arms are
248
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" Sir Doudleus Northon p'dictus 25° februarij, .... 01 00 0 .
"Robertus Johannis Arthurius 26° februarij, 00 10 6
"Richardus Talbottus p'dictus 28° Jarmarij, 00 10 0
•' Dna Jacob! Moore p'dicta 1° Martij, 01 00 0
"Matrona West p filia 3° Martij, 01 00 0
" Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 5° Martij, 00 10 0
"Olivarius Barneville 7° Martij, 00 15 0
" Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 8° Martij, 00 10 0
"Sir Jacobus Moore p'dictus 10° Martij, 01 2 0
"Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 12° Martij, 00 10 0
*' Maria "Wentworth ancilla Matrone Bodley 12° Martij, . . 00 4 4
"Matrona Terrell p marito suo 14° Martij, 01 00 0
"Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 14° Martij, 00 10 0
" Dna /or tescue pro filia Elizabetha 16° Martij 01 00 0
"Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 18° Martij, 00 10 0
" Diia Neutravile1 iunior 20° Martij, 01 00 0
" Dfia Baltingliss p'dicta 22° Martij, 00 10 0
" Andreas Babe p'dictus 23° Martij, 00 8 0
" Quidam Sartor 23° Martij 00 5 0
" Dna Baltinglass p'dicta 24° Martij, 00 10 0
" Honoraria quae transacto hoc anno accessimus adimplent sumam
£278 4«. 4d. ster. pro quibus et casteris diuinffi clementise
donis quibus nostris necessitatibus Subuenire dig-
natur ipsi Deo honor & Gloria a nobis
rependitur in Ssecula.
carved, is the legend on a scroll Scutum tion of Mayor of Cashel, and others of
Stall. The arms on the shield appear to them were extensive merchants of that
be the antlers of a buck with a label of five city. Bennet Saul, of Cashel, forfeited,
points, and two bucks as supporters, in the rebellion of 1641, Carrowtobber-
but the sculptor has placed the latter more, 92 acres, to Mr. Harman. He
rather oddly. There is a finely-carved also forfeited Carriginaveigh, part of
tombstone of some member of the family, Knockaneanneigh, 261 A. 2n. 23 P., of
too, in the cemetery attached to the which Lord Massereene got 9A. IR. 10p.;
present Protestant Church of that city. Charles Alcock, 123 A. ; Edmond Pyke,
Of the same family of Cashel was An- 102 A. ; and Mary Scott, 119 A. OB. 6 P.
drew Saul, the Jesuit, who made a noise In this distribution there were 100 A.
in the early part of the seventeenth 1 R. 22 p., which Paul Boyton, a citizen
century by his having separated himself of Cashel, also forfeited,
from the Church of Rome, and gone In 1613, John Saule and John Haly
over to Protestantism, in the interests represented Cashel in the Irish Parlia-
of which he wrote more than one book. ment. Thename just now is notinexist-
The Most Rev. Dr. Ffrench, Bishop of ence in Cashel.
Ferns, author of " The Bleeding Iphe- 1 Viscount Netterville, of Dowth,
genia," and other works, wrote "The county Meath, married first Eleanor,
Dolefull Fall of Andrew Saul," in reply daughter of Sir John Bathe, of Drum-
to the writings of the ex-Jesuit; and conrath, county Dublin ; and secondly,
Dr. Ffrench's work is held in high esteem Mary, the relict of Sir Thomas Hibbots,
to the present day as a powerful expose Chancellor of the Exchequer, Ireland,
of the proceedings of Andrew Saul. Se- The term "junior" is used probably by
veral of the Saul family filled the posi- Dr. Arthur to indicate the second wife.
(To le continued.}
INDEX.
ABBEY OWHNY, 197.
Adare, town of, ib.
Altar stone found at Clonmacnoise, 71.
Andrews, George, 167.
Archer, arms of, 221.
family of, 220.
family, wills of, 229.
Ardmore Round Tower, repairs of, 72.
Arthur, Dr. Thomas, family of, 17.
Askeaton, ancient name of, 79.
Castle, ib.
Auburn Lake, ancient bell found at, 209.
Aylmer, Co. Kildare, family of, 170.
Ballicar Castle, 76.
Lough, 77.
Ballingard, now Paradise Hill, 85.
Ballingarde Castle, 196.
Ballinrinka Castle, antiquities found at, 205.
Ballon Hill, Pagan cists at, 209.
Ballyclogh Castle, now Stone Hall, 81.
Ballyhoe, lake of, 8.
Bally kitt, 192.
Barnwell, family of, 173.
Baron de Erley, 6.
Bastion on town wall of Kilkenny, 101.
Beau- Lieu, 202.
Bell, Irish, description of, 102.
ancient, found at Auburn Lake, 209.
Berkley, Sir Francis, 79.
Blake, John, of Gal way, 174.
Blazing Star, account of, 90.
Blount, Colonel John, 190.
Bogs, fir timber found in, 77.
Bolton, Edmund, Historian and Antiquary,
175.
Bomfield, family of, 24.
Boundary stone, 5.
Bourchier, arms of, 196.
Bourk, Theobald, monument of, 198.
Bourke, "William, Baron Castleconnell, 46.
family of, 243.
Brabazon, family of, 244.
Bramblestown, ancient name of, 115.
Brenans, the Three, captured in Chester, 33.
Brooke, family of, 241.
Bronze sword, with bone haft, 72.
Bunratty Castle, view of, 87.
Burrin, Barony of, 88, 191.
Cahir Castle, 80.
Callan river, Nial Caille drowned in, 124.
Cannon Island, 85.
Carrigfoyle Castle, 202.
Carrigholt Castle, chief seat of the Mac
Mahons, 188.
granted to the O'Briens. 189.
Carrigogunnell, Castle of, 89.
Carigkenlish, 197.
Castle Connell, 200.
Castleconnell, Lord, case of, 46.
Castle Maine, 79.
Cearbhall, King of Ossory, 114.
Chichester, Sir Arthur, ancestor to the Mar-
quis of Donegal, and to Viscount Tem-
plemore, 27.
Cists, Pagan, found at Ballon Hill, 209.
Clare Abbey, 185.
Clare Castle, 78, 183.
Clogh-an-umpy, meaning of, 190.
Clonmacnoise, altar stone found at, 71.
Clonrond Castle, 181.
Clotworthy, family of, 240.
Coaches from Kilkenny to Dublin in olden
times, 118.
Cogan, family of, 210.
Colpoys, John, 76.
Comet of 1680-1, 91.
Committee, Annual Report of, 2,
Coney Island, 84.
Coote, family of, 151.
Corcomroe, 191.
Barony of, 86.
Corgrage Castle, 187, 188.
Craig Owhny, 198.
Cranm gs in Ballyhoe Lake, antiquities dis-
covered at, 8.
Crossy-Brennan, 205.
250
Cromaghan Castle, 84.
Cullen, Thomas, 81.
Cup-shaped stone, found in the Cathedral of
St. Canice, 71.
Danes, attacks by the, 112.
massacre of the, 115.
Danesfort, anciently called Dunfert, 238.
Darcy, Patrick, 167.
Daverin, ancient name of, 171.
De Burgo, William, Governor of Limerick,
89.
De Clare, 88.
- Richard, 203.
Devenishe, family of, 148.
Dillon, Colonel Carey, 174.
Dineley, extracts from Journal of, 10, 73,
176.
Dineley, family of, 203.
Donogoroge Castle, Ib7.
Droichel Castle, 74.
Dromcliff, Round Tower, remains of, at, 182.
Dublin, old road to, 117.
Ducks, decoy for, 201.
Dun-Cearbhall, 125.
Dunraven, Quin, the family name of the
Earl of, 141.
Durrow, Saxon coin found at, 72.
Earl's Rath, ancient name of, 123.
Ellice, family of, 30.
Ennis, 184.
Ensignmen, 43.
Evans, Rice, family of, 163.
Pagan, family of, 163.
Parrel, Captain Charles, case of, 45.
Feartagh, Round Tower of, 124.
Fee Book of a Physician of the Seventeenth
Century, 139, 239.
Fitz Gerald of Caherass, family of, 28.
Sir John, of Decies, family of, 26.
Fitzmaurice, Patrick, 162.
Fitzpatrick, pedigree of, 112.
Fort, square earthen, 4.
Fort Fergus, 86.
Foules, Mr., 74.
Franciscan Abbey, Kilkenny, repairs of, 70.
Fytton, Sir Edward, 79.
Galmoy, derivation of, 124.
Galway, materials of County History of,
from Ordnance Survey, 215.
Galway, Sir Jeoffrey, 143.
Gareendina Hill, square earthen fort at, 4.
Carton, Co. Donegal, Irish bell found at,
102.
Gavin, family of, 141.
Glancoyne Castle, 193.
Glashare, old church of, 124.
Clyde, river, 8.
Glyn Castle, siege of, 186.
Gould, family of, 244.
Annabel, monument of, 198.
Greatreakes, family of, 25, 28.
Halbolin, 194.
Harris, family of, 141.
Heresy, two Irishmen burned for,
Hickman, Walter, 185.
Hog Island, 189.
Ibrickane, Barony of, 86.
Inchiquin, Earl of, 200.
Ingoldesby, Sir George, 197.
Inis-Cealtra Island, 83.
Inish Carker, 84.
Inishmacowney, ib.
Inish Moor, or Deer Island, ib.
Inish-na-drone, ib.
Inishneganagh Priory, 86.
Islands in Shannon, view of, 85.
Ivers, Henry, of Mount Ivers, 73.
Jerpoint Abbey, 207.
Jones, Bishop of Killaloe, 148.
Kilkenny, County and City Topographical
and Historical Illustrations of, 109.
— ancient roads of, 129.
Castle, ancient views of, 126.
supposed to be built on the site of
Dun Cearbhall, 125.
— town wall of, 101.
Killaloe, 199.
— Bishoprick of, 201.
Killeney, inscribed boundary stone found
at, 5.
Kilrush, 190.
King, John, Clerk of the Hanaper, 190.
Knapogue Castle, 178.
Knockannaneeve, 198.
Lambay Island, remarkable cure of Primate
Ussher at, 147.
Leitrim, materials of County History of, from
Ordnance Survey, 218.
Limerick Castle, 203.
Liscaghan Castle, 193.
251
I.ixnaw Castle, 202.
Loft us, family of, 240.
Loopshead, 189.
Lough Gurr, 139, 194.
MacCarthy, family of, 242.
M'Clanchys, Brehons of Thomond, 81.
Mac Donnell, Earl of Antrim, family of,
240.
Sir Randal, 169.
Sir Randal M'Sorley, 27.
Malachy, King of Meath, 114.
M'Mahons, chief seat of, 188.
— family of, 188, 190.
Mac Namara, family of, 140, 176, 178, 182.
monument of, 181.
— tomb of, 180.
Monsel, Aphra, monument of, 198.
Marriage of James, Viscount Thurles, after-
wards Duke of Ormonde, some Additional
Facts as to the, 232.
Mayo, materials of County History of, from
Ordnance Survey, 212.
— Viscount, 243.
Meetings of the Society, 1, 69, 101, 205.
Merchants' marks, 221.
Mooncoin, bronze medal found at, 208.
Moore, Viscount, family of, 242.
Mount Ivers Castle, 75.
Munford, Mrs., nineteen sons of, 102.
Muskerry, Viscount, 242.
Muyree Castle, 77.
Nore, ford over the, at Maddoxtown, 120.
O'Brien's Bridge, 198, 200.
O'Brien, family of, 25, 79, 89, 198, 202.
Arra, 139.
— Donough Cairbreach, paid homage
to King John, 89.
Donnell More, 79.
O'Connors, The, 88.
O'Donohoe of the Glen, family of, 26.
O'Hanlon, family of, 67.
Hugh, petition of, 59.
— Redmond, the Tory, history of, 60,
67.
Death of, 67.
O'Loughlin, family of, 191.
O'Moore, Roger, 243.
O'Neills, The, Earls of Tyrone, the last of,
91.
O'Neil, last Earl of Tvrone, descendants of,
9].
Ossory, history and succession of the kings
of, 111.
Ossory, ancient mansion-place of the Kings
of, 109.
attacked by the Danes, 112.
Ordnance Survey, materials of Irish County
History from, 103, 212.
Outrath, ancient name of, 116.
Pagan interment, 7.
Park, near Ballacolla, Pagan interments
discovered at, 7.
Parsons, Sir William, 157.
Parteene, 200.
Bridge, inscription on, 201.
Pelham, Sir William, 202.
Percivall, Hugh, arms of, 74.
Physician, Irish, earliest mention of, 10.
Fee-book of, 23.
learning of, 12.
letter of, 47.
mode of treating diseases by, 11.
names of, 13.
privileges of, 10.
professional history of, 19.
Prendergast, family of, 210.
Preston, Jennico, 154.
Pynnar, Nicholas, 159.
Quin Abbey, 179.
town of, 178.
, family name of the Earl of Dunraven,
141.
Rathfolan Castle, 77.
Rathlahine Castle, 82.
Rathmore Castle, 197.
Rathowine Castle, 202.
Rathsaran, square fort af, 4.
Rider, John, Bishop of Killaloe, 141.
Ring Money, modern, manufactured for
African trade, 206.
Ring penannular, 209.
Road, old, from Kilkenny to Dublin, 117.
Roighna, ancient district of Ossory, 123.
Rone, Earl of, 102.
Roscommon, materials of County History
of, from Ordnance Survey, 106.
Rossmonaher Castle, 86.
Ross Roe Castle, 176.
subterraneous stream at, 178.
Roth, Bishop of Ossory, account of Kil-
kenny by, 109.
Round Tower, remains of, atDromcliff, 182.
Ryans, ancient name of, 28.
Ryder, Bishop of Killaloe, 190.
252
Sarsfield, Viscount Kilmallock, 28.
Saxon coins found at Durrow, Queen's
County, 72.
Scattery Island, 188.
Scbuille Castle, 197.
Sexten, George, ancestor to the Earl of
Limerick, 25.
Shannon river, description of, 186.
Skeleton, gigantic, found at Carrigogun-
nell, 90.
Skyddy, family of, 242.
now Scudamore, ib.
Sligo, materials of County History of, from
Ordnance Survey, 103.
Southwell, family of, 147.
— Sir Richard, 141.
St. Canice, Cathedral of, 140.
cup-shaped stone found in, 71.
St. Leger, President of Ulster, 160.
Sweetman, family of, 6.
Sun dials on stairs at Ballagh Castle, 4.
Tape worm, 197.
Talbot, Richard, of Malahide, 170.
Sir John, of Malahide, 144.
Tempo, meaning of, 190.
Thomond family, account of, 84.
Tiles found in St. Patrick's Cathedral, 71.
Titchborne, family of, 149.
Tomgraney, 201.
Tories, origin of, 36.
Tory war of Ulster, 33.
Treasurer's account for 1863, 70.
Tuite, Walter, petition to the Duke of Or-
monde of, 42.
Turning stone, 190.
Tyrconnell, Countess of, 152.
Tyrone, Earl of, curious Devonshire custom
regarding the, 102.
Ussher, family of, 161.
Primate, remarkable cure of, 146.
Vandeleur, Giles, 83, 190,
Vanhogarden, Isaac, 189.
Walshes of Castle Hoel, arms of, 224.
Wandesforde, Sir Christopher, 241.
Ware, Sir James, 161, 170.
— wife of Sir James, 168.
Waterford, Donough Cairbreach O'Brien,
paid homage to King John at, 89.
Waynman, Edward, Captain, 161.
Webbsborough, ancient name of, 205.
Wemys family, notice of, 237.
White family of, 24.
Wolves in Ireland, 211.
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